In the history of exploration, Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres as Swiss cartographer (1721–1824).
Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres was born at Blamont in 1734. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Seventeenth-century voyaging was commercial and Dutch-led, mapping coastlines for companies rather than kings.
He is recorded as cartographer, military engineer and engineer.
Distance was the hardest problem of the pre-modern world, and it was solved by people willing to risk it.
Recognition followed: Person of National Historic Significance.
Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres died in 1824, aged 90. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Person of National Historic Significance
- Recorded as cartographer, military engineer and engineer
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