The La Recherche Expedition of 1838 to 1840, a French Admiralty expedition whose destination was the North Atlantic and Scandinavian islands, in a Spitsbergen bay. On 13 June 1838 the French corvette La Recherche left Le Havre in France, bound for Northern Scandinavia. Joseph Paul Gaimard (1796–1858), a physician and zoologist was the commanding officer of the purely scientific expedition.

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Location: Spitsbergen bay, Northern Norway.
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