Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne
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Marc-Joseph Marion "Macé" du Fresne was a French privateer, East India captain, and explorer. The expedition he led to find the hypothetical Terra Australis in 1771 made important geographic discoveri
Memorial fountain in Hobart for the bicentenary of the 1772 sighting of Tasmania.
Monument to the memory of Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne and his party at Te Hue Bay, "Assassination cove".
Romantic imagining of the killing of Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne.
Crozet Islands
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The Crozet Islands are a sub-Antarctic archipelago of small islands in the southern Indian Ocean. They form one of the five administrative districts of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.
Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne
…research and supply vessel the Marion Dufresne (1972) and the Marion Dufresne II, which service the French Southern Territories of Amsterdam Island, the Crozet Islands, the Kerguelen Islands, and Saint Paul Island. Marion was born in Saint Malo in 1724 the son of shipowner Julien Marion Dufresne (1681-1739) and his…
One of the Crozet Islands
The Marion Dufresne off the "port" of Crozet. East Island in the background.
One of the penguin colonies of the islands
The Eastern Group as seen from outer space in December 1998.