Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet of Lozier

See also: Grooving plane

Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet of Lozier or of Lozier-Grooving plane , born the January 14th 1705 and died in 1786, was a navigator French, discoverer of the island Bouvet and governor of the Mascareignes.

To the head of the frigate S the Eagle and Marie , Jean Baptiste Charles de Lozier Bouvet started from Lorient the July 19th 1738 to explore the grounds of the southern hemisphere which had, believed one at that time, to counterbalance the weight of the grounds of the Northern hemisphere. There was the hope to find there grounds moderate. It was in any case the first forwarding in the southern hemisphere explicitly conceived for scientific objectives.

January first 1739, it saw through the fog and the snowfalls a glacier and snow recovering a ground. Was this the so much awaited Terra Australis Incognita ? The explorers sought to accost, but the “pack” prevented some. They had to face a particularly cold southern summer. After nine days of attempts under difficult conditions, they left to seek their unknown continent more in the East. The instruments of navigation of the time did not allow a reliable determination of longitude, and Grooving plane recorded the island with approximately 6° Is. Not finding anything more in the East, blocked in the South by the pack, Bouvet had to take again its road towards the Cape to be restored, then to return to Lorient.

Thanks to this forwarding, it was the first to describe gigantic the Iceberg S tabular, which one finds only in the extreme southern latitudes, of the densities of unknown whales until there and funny of animal: the Penguin!

Ten years after its forwarding, it was named governor of the Mascareignes, in the south-west of the Indian Ocean. It held this station of 1750 with 1752, then one second time of 1757 with 1763. It is not with him that refers the name given to the College and Lycée Admiral GROOVING PLANE of St Benoit of the Meeting, but with a relative distant Pierre GROOVING PLANE from marine MAISONNEUVE which took part in the Napoleonean wars and the famous battle of Large-Port Mauritius Ile de France) in 1810, only naval victory of Napoleon I.

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History of discovered Grooving plane

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