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Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne (22 May 1724 – 12 June 1772) was a French privateer, East India captain and explorer. The expedition he led to find the hypothetical Terra Australis in 1771 made important geographic discoveries in the south Indian Ocean and anthropological discoveries in Tasmania and New Zealand.
Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne (22 de maio de 1724 - 12 de junho de 1772) foi um explorador francês. Ele nasceu em Saint Malo e se juntou à Companhia Francesa das Índias Orientais aos 11 anos (o que era incomum na época) como um sub-comandante a bordo do Duc de Bourgogne.
21 de mar. de 2023 · Marion du Fresne was a naval officer who led a voyage of trade and exploration to the Pacific in 1771. He sighted Mount Taranaki, visited the Bay of Islands, and was killed by Māori in June 1772.
Marc Joseph Marion du Fresne, dit Marion-Dufresne, baptisé le 22 mai 1724 à Saint-Malo et mort le 12 juin 1772 à la baie des Îles, en Nouvelle-Zélande, est un navigateur et explorateur français du XVIII e siècle.
Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne (1724-1772), mariner, was baptized on 22 May 1724 at St Malo, Brittany, France, youngest of eight children of Julien Marion Dufresne (1681-1739), a wealthy shipowner and merchant, and his wife Marie Seraphique, née Le Fer de la Lande.
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One, led by Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, sailed to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) and as far as New Zealand, alerting France to their worth though as the names suggest, both had been earlier discovered by the Dutch, in this case by Abel Tasman.
J’ai de plus été nommé commandant du navire d’exploration qui avait pour objectif d’observer Vénus sur l’Ile Rodrigue en Mer des Indes. Cette observation suivie par d’autres observatoires éloignées a permis de connaître la distance entre la Terre et le Soleil.
