Bougainville
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Bougainville may refer to:
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[edit] People
- Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729–1811), French navigator, explorer and military commander
- Hyacinthe de Bougainville (1781-1846), French naval officer and son of Louis Antoine de Bougainville
[edit] Places
- Autonomous Region of Bougainville, also known as North Solomons, an autonomous region in Papua New Guinea
- Bougainville Island, a part of Papua New Guinea and the largest island of the Solomon Islands group
- Bougainville, Somme, a commune in Somme département, France
- Bougainville Strait, a strait which separates Choiseul Island (Solomon Islands) from Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea)
- Isla Bougainville, the Spanish name for Lively Island in the Falkland Islands
[edit] History
- Bougainville Campaign, a World War II military campaign fought from 1943 to 1945 between the Allies and Japan that occurred on and around Bougainville Island
[edit] Ships
- French ship Bougainville, various French ships named in honour of Louis Antoine de Bougainville
- USS Bougainville (CVE-100), later CVU-100, a United States Navy Casablanca-class escort aircraft carrier in commission from 1944 to 1946
[edit] Literature and film
- Bougainville – Our Island Our Fight, a documentary film directed by Wayne Coles-Janess
- Bougainville (novel), a 1981 novel by Dutch author F. Springer
- An Evergreen Island, a 2000 Frontyard Films documentary by Amanda King and Fabio Cavadini
[edit] Botany
- Bougainvillea, a genus of flowering plants native to South America
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