Louis Antoine de Bougainville aboard the Boudeuse and Etoile was stopped around one hundred kilometres from the Australian Coast by the Great Barrier Reef. On board was Jeanne Baré, probably the first woman to circumnavigate the world.
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Louis Antoine de Bougainville aboard the Boudeuse and Etoile was stopped around one hundred kilometres from the Australian Coast by the Great Barrier Reef. On board was Jeanne Baré, probably the first woman to circumnavigate the world.