Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville travelled at a period when the map still had blanks on it, and filled some of them.
The record lists Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville as French cartographer and geographer (1697–1782).
Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville was born at Paris in 1697. 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, geographer and encyclopédistes.
The record of exploration is also a record of the people already living in the places reached.
Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville died in 1782, aged 85. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as cartographer, geographer and encyclopédistes
