Louis Isidore Duperrey
Louis Isidore Duperrey , born with Paris the October 21st 1786 and dead the August 25th 1865, is a sailor, explorer and cartographer French.
It engages in the navy at the 16 years age and accompanies Louis de Freycinet (1779-1842) in his Circumnavigation on board the Uranie by 1817 with 1820 like hydrograph by navy. On its return, it is named captain and immediately proposes a new scientific exhibition to supplement the work undertaken on the Uranie . When it takes the command of the Shell , it chooses like second Jules Dumont d' Urville, who also deals of Botanique and Entomologie.
It leaves Toulon on August 11th 1822 and moves initially towards the island of Soledad, close to the Chile. Its forwarding is a success: no lost life, of important scientific results. However, in spite of a serious scientific publication, and the homage which was paid to him by the Musée of the quay Branly, Duperrey remained ignored. The islands Gilbert owe him, like with the Russian admiral of Estonian origin, Johann Adam von Krusenstern, to be named and represented for the first time on a chart like a single archipelago, with for name, in French, the Gilbert islands, of the name of a British captain .
In 1842, Louis Isidore Duperrey is elected member of the Academy of Science, of which he is president in 1860.
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