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Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne

1724 - 1772

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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. In New Zealand they spent longer living on shore than any previous European expedition. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne has received more than 127,051 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne is the 181st most popular explorer (up from 225th in 2019), the 2,270th most popular biography from France (up from 2,604th in 2019) and the 17th most popular French Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne ranks 181 out of 405. Before him are James Weddell, Nikolai Rezanov, Carsten Borchgrevink, Masabumi Hosono, Joshua Slocum, and Olivier van Noort. After him are Hjalmar Johansen, Naddodd, Don Walsh, Francisco de Bobadilla, Jimmie Angel, and Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1724, Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne ranks 16. Before him are Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach, Peter von Biron, Johann Nepomuk Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein, Princess Sophie Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Eva Ekeblad, and Franz Aepinus. After him are George Stubbs, Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Gottfried Heinrich Bach, John Michell, Claude Balbastre, and John Smeaton. Among people deceased in 1772, Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne ranks 9. Before him are Ahmad Shah Durrani, Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Louis-Claude Daquin, Ernst Johann von Biron, Gerard van Swieten, and Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein. After him are Gottfried Achenwall, Princess Mary of Great Britain, Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, Augustin Ehrensvärd, John Canton, and Pyotr Saltykov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne ranks 2,270 out of 6,011. Before him are Nominoe (800), Pierre Soulages (1919), Joan, Duchess of Brittany (1324), Pierre Lemaitre (1951), Gaston III, Count of Foix (1331), and Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806). After him are Eustache Deschamps (1346), Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire (1802), Alexandre Darracq (1855), Charles Diehl (1859), Marcel Dalio (1899), and Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas (1701).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne ranks 17. Before him are René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643), Jean Chardin (1643), Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (1705), Sophie Blanchard (1778), Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec (1734), and Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605). After him are Henri Mouhot (1826), Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney (1757), Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon (1510), René Caillié (1799), Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867), and Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux (1737).

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