Louis-Isidore Duperrey
Template:Short description Template:More citations needed Template:Infobox person Louis-Isidore Duperrey (Template:IPA; 21 October 1786 – 25 August 1865) was a French naval officer and explorer.
Biography
Early life
Louis-Isidore Duperrey was born in 1786.<ref name="AAAS" />
Career
He joined the navy in 1802, and served as marine hydrologist to Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet aboard the Uranie (1817–1820). He commanded La Coquille on its circumnavigation of the earth (1822–1825) with Jules Dumont d'Urville as second. René-Primevère Lesson also travelled on La Coquille as a naval doctor and naturalist. On the return to France in March 1825, Lesson and Dumont brought back to France an imposing collection of animals and plants collected on the Falkland Islands, on the coasts of Chile and Peru, in the archipelagos of the Pacific and New Zealand, New Guinea and Australia.
During the voyage the ship spend two weeks in the Bay of Islands in the north of New Zealand in 1824 and visited for ten days on l'île d'Oualan,<ref>Suárez, Thomas (2004). Early Mapping of the Pacific: The Epic Story of Seafarers, Adventurers, and Cartographers Who Mapped the Earth's Greatest Ocean. Singapore: Periplus Editions. 224 pp. Template:ISBN. </ref> now Kosrae, contemporary Federated States of Micronesia, that same year.<ref name="ESNZC">Template:Cite web</ref> On the return voyage to France the ship sailed through the Ellice Islands (now known as Tuvalu).<ref name="KSDDM">Template:Cite journal</ref>
He was the first to put together on a map the whole Gilbert Islands archipelago, which are now part of Kiribati (with the name given to it by Admiral Krusenstern).<ref name="KSDDM"/>
Duperrey was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1861.<ref name="AAAS">Template:Cite web</ref> Duperrey was elected to the Académie des Sciences as a general member in 1842,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> elected vice president in 1849<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and became its president in 1850.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Death
He died in 1865.<ref name="AAAS" />
Legacy
The Australian eastern three-lined skink, Bassiana duperreyi (Gray, 1838), was named in his honour.<ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. Template:ISBN. ("Duperrey", p. 78).</ref>
Two plant genera have been named in his honour: Duperrea (in 1924 <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and Duperreya from Australia (in 1829 <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>