hand-coloured lithograph of a group of Maori men and women dance on the French ship Astrolabe in 1827, with a French officer at right, in Tolaga Bay in the Gisborne Region of New Zealand's North Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (1790 – 1842) was a French explorer and naval officer who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica.

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Location: New Zealand
Photo credit: © Lakeview Images / Alamy / Afripics
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