In the history of exploration, Gilles Robert de Vaugondy is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Gilles Robert de Vaugondy as French geographer (1688-1766).
Gilles Robert de Vaugondy was born at Paris in 1688. His recorded nationality is France.
Seventeenth-century voyaging was commercial and Dutch-led, mapping coastlines for companies rather than kings.
He is recorded as cartographer and geographer.
Distance was the hardest problem of the pre-modern world, and it was solved by people willing to risk it.
Gilles Robert de Vaugondy died in 1766, aged 78. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as cartographer and geographer
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