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Gustave Lambert
Born
Marie Joseph Gustave Adolphe Lambert

(1824-07-01)1 July 1824
Grièges, Ain, France
Died27 January 1871(1871-01-27) (aged 46)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Hydrographer and navigator

Gustave Lambert (1 July 1824 – 27 January 1871) was a French hydrographer and navigator. He died of wounds received at the Battle of Buzenval (1871).

Life

Gustave Lambert was born in Grièges, Ain, on 1 July 1814. He became a hydrographer and navigator. He explored the north of the Bering Strait in 1865. In 1869 he was head of an expedition to the North Pole. Gustave Lambert died in Buzenval, Paris, on 19 January 1871.[1]

Publications

Publications by Gustave Lambert include:[1]

  • Gustave Lambert (1866), "Projet de voyage au Pôle Nord, note lue à la Société de géographie, dans sa séance... du 14 décembre 1866, par Gustave Lambert,...", Bulletin de la Société de géographie, Paris: impr. de E. Martinet: 15
  • Gustave Lambert (1867), "La Question du Pôle Nord, lettres adressées à M. Jules Duval, vice-président de la Société de géographie, directeur de l'"Économiste français"", l'Économiste français, Paris: A. Bertrand: 48
  • Gustave Lambert (1868), "L'Expédition au Pôle Nord, par Gustave Lambert, chef de l'expédition. Assemblée générale du 20 décembre 1867", Bulletin de la Société de géographie, Paris: Société de géographie: 134

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