Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux is remembered for reaching places that the written record had not yet described.
The record lists Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux as French explorer.
Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux was born at Aix-en-Provence in 1737. His recorded nationality is France.
Seventeenth-century voyaging was commercial and Dutch-led, mapping coastlines for companies rather than kings.
He is recorded as explorer, military personnel and admiral.
What an expedition is remembered for is rarely what it set out to do.
Recognition followed: Order of Saint Louis.
Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux died in 1793, aged 56. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Order of Saint Louis
- Recorded as explorer, military personnel and admiral
