Not all explorers can claim to have discovered the new continent, but at least we have tried Jean Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier was born in France in 1705. Orphaned at a tender young age he was sent to study the techniques of navigation at Saint Malo. In 1731, became lieutenant in the French East India Company, he managed to convince the same company to provide two ships ( Aigle and Marie ) to embark on the road in 'South Atlantic. 7 years later he left with two ships from the French port on ' Atlantic Lorient.
After months at sea in January of 'years later, discovered an uninhabited sub-antarctic volcanic island in the South-West Chapter of Good Hope, which will then be called in his honor Bouvet Island. then and there but not the French explorer rius us to accurately determine the location of the island and not circumnavigate his discovery, it was uncertain if it were an island or part of a continent. On board in fact many people thought (and hoped) that he had found the mythical Terra Australis Incognita, an imaginary continent shown on maps since the fifteenth century. addition, because the diseases that c ome usual gripped the sailors, he was forced to repair to the Cape before returning in a tuxedo. A ten years' after expedition was appointed governor of the Mascarene islands for two terms: 1750-52 and 1757-63.
Regarding the island; riavvistata was not until 1808, when it was discovered that a Lindsay, the captain of a whaling ship that was passing nearby. While there he landed, he was the first to correctly determine the location of the island. The first landing instead dates back to 1822, when a certain Captain Morrell decided to go hunting for seals on 'island.
After the British abandoned their claim on the 'island, since 1930 it belongs to Norway, and is uninhabited and as such how Bouvet saw more than 250 years ago.
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