Bougainville, Louis Antoine de (1729–1811)
French navigator. After service with the French in Canada during the Seven Years' War, he made the first French circumnavigation of the world in 1766–69 and the first systematic observations of longitude.
Several Pacific islands are named after him, as is the climbing plant bougainvillea.
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