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Raymond Rallier du Baty (30 August 1881 – 7 May 1978) was a French sailor and
Raymond Rallier du Baty (30 August 1881 – 7 May 1978) was a French sailor and explorer
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, from Lorient
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History
Prehistory and classical antiquity
Beginn ...
in Brittany
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, who carried out surveys of the subantarctic
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Kerguelen Islands
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in the southern Indian Ocean
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in the early 20th century.
Rallier du Baty took part in the 1904-1907 Third French Antarctic Expedition led by Jean-Baptiste Charcot.
From September 1907 to July 1909 Captain Raymond Rallier du Baty sailed from Boulogne
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to Melbourne
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in a French fishing ketch, known as the J. B. Charcot. The J. B. Charcot weighed forty-eight tons and completed this trip in 15,000 miles. The reason for this voyage was primarily to chart the subantarctic Kerguelen Islands
The Kerguelen Islands ( or ; in French commonly ' but officially ', ), also known as the Desolation Islands (' in French), are a group of islands in the subantarctic, sub-Antarctic region. They are among the Extremes on Earth#Remoteness, most i ...
. Du Baty and his brother Henri du Baty funded this expedition by harvesting the oil of the southern elephant seals in the area. Raymond Rallier du Baty wrote a book detailing his experience on the J. B. Charcot, entitled 15,000 Miles in a Ketch.
They returned again in 1913-1914 in ''La Curieuse'' to carry out further surveys. These efforts led to the publication of the first full map of the archipelago in 1922.
Rallier du Baty is commemorated in several geographic features, including Péninsule Rallier du Baty in the Kerguelen Archipelago, and Rallier Island and Rallier Channel in the Wilhelm Archipelago
The Wilhelm Archipelago is an island archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica.
Wilhelm Archipelago consists of numerous islands, the largest of which are Booth Island and Hovgaard Island (Antarctica), Hovgaard Is ...
of the Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica.
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Raymond Rallier du Baty's father was a commander in the French navy and his uncle was an admiral.
Publications
* 1917 - '' 15,000 Miles in a Ketch''. Thomas Nelson and Sons: London. * 1946 - ''Dans l'ombre de Jean Charcot. Notes personnelles de R.Rallier du Baty transcrites et complètèes par Pierre Navarre''. Arthaud: Paris. (In French). * 1991 - ''Aventures aux Kerguelen''. Ouest France. (A French translation of ''Fifteen Thousand Miles in A Ketch'').See also
* La Tanche (ship), a research vessel under the command of Raymond Rallier du Baty from 1921 - 1928.References
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