Louis-Isidore Duperrey

Louis-Isidore Duperrey (; 21 October 1786 – 25 August 1865) was a French naval officer and explorer.

Biography

Early life Louis-Isidore Duperrey was born in 1786. now Kosrae, contemporary Federated States of Micronesia, that same year. On the return voyage to France the ship sailed through the Ellice Islands (now known as Tuvalu).

He was the first to put together on a map the whole Gilbert Islands archipelago, which are now part of Kiribati (with the name given to it by Admiral Krusenstern). Duperrey was elected to the Académie des Sciences as a general member in 1842, elected vice president in 1849 and became its president in 1850.

Death He died in 1865.

Two plant genera have been named in his honour: Duperrea (in 1924 ) and Duperreya from Australia (in 1829 ).