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Noun: Bougainville  'boo-gun,vil or boo-gaÑ'veel
  1. French explorer who circumnavigated the globe accompanied by scientists (1729-1811)
    - Louis Antoine de Bougainville
     
  2. The largest of the Solomon Islands; a province of Papua New Guinea
    - Bougainville Island

Type of: adventurer, explorer, island

Part of: Independent State of Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands

Encyclopedia: Bougainville, Somme