Pierre François Keraudren

Who was Pierre François Keraudren?

Pierre François Keraudren was a scientist and physician in the French Navy. He was a native of Brest.

From 1813 to 1845 he served as Inspector General to the Health Department of the Navy. Keraudren was a member of the Académie de Médecine, a consulting physician to Louis-Philippe and a member of the Moscow Society of Naturalists. He also belonged to medical, literary and scientific societies of Madrid, Louvain, Bologna, Orléans, Marseille, Toulon and Rochefort. On July 10, 1816 he was knighted in the Ordre de Saint-Michel.

His name has been honoured in several ways:

⁕Keraudren Island is located west of Australia at 14°56′33″S 124°41′2″E / 14.94250°S 124.68389°E.

⁕Cape Keraudren in the north-west of Australia was charted in 1801 and is located at 19°57′S 119°46′E / 19.950°S 119.767°E at the southern end of Eighty Mile Beach. Keraudren served as the ship's official physician during this expedition.

⁕Cape Keraudren at the north of Hunter Island in the north-west of Tasmania at 40°23′S 144°47′E / 40.383°S 144.783°E.

⁕The Trumpet Manucode, a species of birds found in New Guinea, was given the scientific name Manucodia keraudrenii by René-Primevère Lesson and Prosper Garnot in 1826.