Pierre François Keraudren
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Pierre François Keraudren (1769 – 1858) was a scientist and physician in the French Navy
French Navy
The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching...

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His name has been honoured in several ways:
  • Keraudren Island
    Keraudren Island
    Keraudren Island is an island off the coast of the Kimberley region of Western Australia in the Indian Ocean.The island lies approximately off-shore from Cape Wellington in the Prince Regent Nature Reserve....

     is located west of Australia at 14°56′33"S 124°41′2"E.
  • Cape Keraudren in the north-west of Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

     was charted in 1801 and is located at 19°57′S 119°46′E at the southern end of Eighty Mile Beach. Keraudren served as the ship's official physician during this expedition.
  • Cape Keraudren at the north of Hunter Island in the north-west of Tasmania
    Tasmania
    Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...

     at 40°23′S 144°47′E.
  • The Trumpet Manucode
    Trumpet Manucode
    The Trumpet Manucode is species of medium-sized, approximately 31 cm long, bird in the family Paradisaeidae. It has elongated horn-like head tufts and loose neck feathers. The plumage is of blackish glossed blue, green and purple. It has a red iris, long coiled trachea, and blackish bill,...

    , a species of birds found in New Guinea
    New Guinea
    New Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...

    , was given the scientific name Manucodia keraudrenii by René-Primevère Lesson
    René-Primevère Lesson
    René Primevère Lesson was a French surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist.Lesson was born at Rochefort, and at the age of sixteen he entered the Naval Medical School there...

     and Prosper Garnot
    Prosper Garnot
    Prosper Garnot was a French surgeon and naturalist.Garnot was born at Brest. He was an assistant surgeon under Louis Isidore Duperrey on La Coquille during its circumnavigation of the globe . Along with Rene Primevere Lesson he collected numerous natural history specimens in South America and the...

     in 1826.
  • He also appears to be the person after whom the gastropods Oxygyrus keraudrenii (Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, 1817) and Pterotrachea keraudrenii (Fortune Eydoux and Louis François Auguste Souleyet
    Louis François Auguste Souleyet
    Louis François Auguste Souleyet was a French zoologist, malacologist and naval surgeon.Souleyet was naturalist-surgeon on the voyage of La Bonite, which circumnavigated the globe between February 1836 and November 1837 under Auguste Nicolas Vaillant . In the Pacific he studied marine molluscs...

    , 1832) were named.

List of works

  • "De la fièvre jaune observée aux Antilles [et] sur les vaisseaux du roi" Keraudren, Pierre François. - Paris, 1823
  • "Mémoire sur les causes des maladies des Marins, et sur les soins à prendre pour converser leur santé dans les ports et à la mer" Keraudren, Pierre François. - Seconde édition. - A Paris, 1824
  • "Du Cholera-Morbus de l'Inde ou Mordéchi" Keraudren, Pierre François. - Paris, 1824
  • "Mémoire Sur Le Choléra-Morbus De L'inde" Keraudren, Pierre François. - Paris : Baillière, 1831

See also

  • European and American voyages of scientific exploration
    European and American voyages of scientific exploration
    The era of European and American voyages of scientific exploration followed the Age of Discovery and were inspired by a new confidence in science and reason that arose in the Age of Enlightenment...

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