Jules Dumont d'Urville

French explorer, cartographer, botanist, linguist and writer. Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville was born on 23 May 1790, at Condé-sur-Noireau, Calvados, Normandy, and was killed on 8 May 1842, in a train which caught fire between Paris and Versailles. Dumont d'Urville's second and final voyage of scientific discovery, from September 1837-November 1840, aimed for the South Magnetic Pole, and explored Australia, New Zealand and various islands of the Pacific.