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Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne

French explorer
Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne 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... Wikipedia
Born: May 22, 1724, Saint-Malo, France
Died: June 12, 1772 (age 48 years), Bay Of Islands, New Zealand
Spouse: Julie Bernardine (m. 1756)