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Born July 15, 1867 • Neuilly-sur-Seine • France
Died c.September 16, 1936 • Atlantic Ocean • Iceland
Dumont d'Urville, engraving by Émile Lassalle after Maurin
Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d’Urville
French explorer
Louis-Claude de Saulces de Freycinet
French cartographer
César-François Cassini de Thury
French surveyor
Nicollet, Joseph Nicolas
Joseph Nicolas Nicollet
French scientist and explorer
Jean-Étienne Guettard
French geologist
Édouard Gaston Deville
French surveyor
Dominique, comte de Cassini
French surveyor and astronomer
Frémont, John C.
John C. Frémont
American explorer, military officer, and politician
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
John Smith
John Smith
British explorer
Robert Fitzroy
British scientist
Chesney, detail from a painting over a photograph; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Francis Rawdon Chesney
British explorer
Oxley, John
John Oxley
British explorer
Evans, George William
George William Evans
English surveyor and explorer
King, Clarence
Clarence King
American geologist
George Vancouver
George Vancouver
British explorer
Jeremiah Dixon
English surveyor
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
American geologist
Becker, George Ferdinand
George Ferdinand Becker
American geologist
Mitchell, Sir Thomas Livingstone
Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
British explorer