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Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (14 January 1705 – 1786) was a French explorer and colonial administrator of the Mascarene Islands to the east of

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. He was

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ed at the age of seven and after being educated in

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, he was sent to Saint Malo to study

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. He became a

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of the French East India Company in 1731. He succeeded in convincing his employer to provide him with two ships and send him on an exploration mission in the

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. With his ships ''Aigle'' and ''Marie'' he discovered on 1 January 1739 a tiny island which was named Bouvet Island after him, the world’s remotest island; however, he mislabelled the coordinates for the island, causing it to be lost until it was rediscovered seven decades later in 1808. Shortly afterwards, he had to abandon the expedition because most of his crew had fallen ill; his ship then called at the

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and returned to

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. Ten years after his expedition, Lozier was appointed

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of the Mascarene Islands twice, once from 1750 to 1752 and a second time from 1757 to 1763. In 1769 he married the grandniece of Cardinal de Fleury, Mademoiselle de Laumont, with who he had a son.

References

Bibliography

* Lyubomir Ivanov and Nusha Ivanova. Bouvet and Kerguelen. In
''The World of Antarctica''.
Generis Publishing, 2022. pp. 70–72.

External links

at South-Pole.com 1705 births 1786 deaths 18th-century French explorers Governors of Isle de France (Mauritius) {{Explorer-stub