known European to visit the North Shore was French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville, who anchored the Astrolabe at Torpedo Bay in 1827. Lottin, the ship's...
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The History Channel. Retrieved 28 October 2019. "Croye Pithey". The Aerodrome. Retrieved 24 January 2018. Southern, David A. (June 1921). Clark, Grenville...
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explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville arrived in Tasman Bay on the corvette Astrolabe. A number of landmarks around Tasman Bay were named by d'Urville and his crew...
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On 15 April 1924, the N-1 was carried away from its base at Ciampino aerodrome by a violent wind gust. Two soldiers and a mechanic, who were unable to...
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Vlamingh's plate and removed it to France. 1826 – On 26 October, Frenchman Dumont d'Urville in another ship named Astrolabe visited King George Sound before sailing...
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his last wishes." The Wilkins Sound, Wilkins Coast, the Wilkins Runway aerodrome and the Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica are named after him, as are the...
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visitor to the coast near Motueka in 1827 was French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville, of the French corvette Astrolabe. He explored and described much of...
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