Admiral Jules Sébastien César Dumont d’Urville
1790–1842
(Person)
Explorer, cartographer, botanist, linguist, writer.
Works by this Author in Our Collection
Mentioned in
- An Introduction to Polynesian Anthropology
- Botanical Discovery in New Zealand: The Visiting Botanists
- Castaway on the Auckland Isles
- Check to Your King
- Early New Zealand Botanical Art
- Exotic Intruders
- Explorers of the Pacific: European and American Discoveries in Polynesia
- La Nouvelle-Zélande
- Letters and Art in New Zealand
- Manual of the New Zealand Flora.
- Moko; or Maori Tattooing
- Murihiku: A History of the South Island of New Zealand and the Islands Adjacent and Lying to the South, from 1642 to 1835
- New Zealanders and Science
- New Zealand Plants and their Story
- The Discovery of New Zealand
- The Exploration of New Zealand
- The Farmer in New Zealand
- The Old Whaling Days
- The Women of New Zealand
- Tuatara: Volume 13, Issue 3, November 1965
Cited in
- The Early Journals of Henry Williams
- The Maori - Volume II
- Tuatara: Volume 13, Issue 3, November 1965
Image Gallery
.jpg "A fleet of war canoes seen by Dumont d'Urville's expedition")
.jpg "De Sainson, an artist who illustrated Dumont d'Urville's 'Voyage Pittoresque Autour du Monde' (1839 shows a Maori party hoeing up potatoes. Food is also being temporarily stored on a platform at the left of the picture")
.jpg "De Sainson, artist on one of Dumont d'Urville's expeditions, sketched these Maori articles (1833): Dish and pounder (top), weapons (extreme right and left), fish-hooks (top right and left), greenstone ornament (centre), ear-rings (bottom, centre, right, and left)")
.jpg "Dumont d'Urville's artist, de Sainson, captures the rhythm of a Maori dance on the 'Astrolabe' at Tolaga Bay. Men, women, and children all appear to be enjoying the fun of this dance!")
.jpg "Dumont d'Urville's artist made this pleasing representation of a typical inlet on the East Coast of the North Island. Prominent in the picture are the Maori canoes, the trees growing to the water's edge, and the sea-worn rocks")
.jpg "Dumont d'Urville — (1790–1842)")
.jpg "Fig. 11.—From a drawing in Dumont D'Urville's Voyages")
.jpg "Fig. 16.—Thigh-tattooing. — (From Dumont D'Urville's “Voyages.”)")
.jpg "Fig. 33.—From Dumont D'Urville's “Voyages,” c. 1826")
.jpg "Fig. 34.—A girl's head from Dumont D'Urville's “Voyages.”")
.jpg "Fig. 36.—From Dumont D'Urville's “Voyages.”")
.jpg "J. S. C. Dumont D'Urville")
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Other Collections
The following collections may have holdings relevant to "Admiral Jules Sébastien César Dumont d’Urville":
- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, which has entries for many prominent New Zealanders.
- Archives New Zealand, which has collections of maps, plans and posters; immigration passenger lists; and probate records.
- National Library of New Zealand, which has extensive collections of published material.
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, which has extensive holdings on the Auckland region and New Zealand military history.
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, which has strong holdings in Tāonga Māori, biological holotypes and New Zealand art.
- nzhistory.net.nz, from the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.