Charcot Jean Baptiste Étienne Auguste
Char·cot
(shär-kō′), Jean Baptiste Étienne Auguste 1867-1936. French explorer who led two missions to the Antarctic (1903-1905 and 1908-1910). He died in a shipwreck near Iceland.
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