Today in history - 1827 - D'Urville sailed through French Pass

1827 - D'Urville sails through 'French Pass'

In a feat of navigational daring – and after several attempts – the French explorer Jules Sébastien César Dumont d’Urville sailed the Astrolabe from Tasman Bay through the narrow ‘French Pass’ into Admiralty Bay in the Marlborough Sounds. more...