Monaco (Prince of)
Original title: Mónaco (Príncipe de)
Prince Albert I of Monaco, oceanographer, repeatedly visited Madeiran waters between 1879 and 1912 and made valuable collections for the study of the hydrobiology of this part of the Atlantic.
Prince Albert I of Monaco, born in 1848 and died in June 1922, visited the seas around Madeira in 1879, 1888, 1901, 1904, 1911 and 1912, and in other years as well, aboard either the Hirondelle or the Princesa Alice. On every one of these occasions he made valuable collections for the study of the hydrobiology of this part of the Atlantic. In March 1888 he was on Deserta Grande (‘great deserted island’), which he discusses in his book La Carrière d'un navigateur; the chapter on that island was translated by Mr Alberto Sarmento and published in the Heraldo da Madeira (‘Madeira Herald’).
The Bulletin of the Zoological Society of France (1892) published a work entitled Orthoptères provenant des voyages de S. A. le prince de Monaco dans les archipels de Madère et des Açores, and the Bulletin of the Oceanographic Institute of Monaco (1914) contains a work by L. Gain entitled Algues provenant des Campagnes de l'Hirondelle II (1911-1912).
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Prince Albert of Monaco made his first recorded visit to Madeiran seas.
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Prince Albert I of Monaco visited the Deserta Grande.
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A paper on Orthoptera collected on the Prince of Monaco's voyages to Madeira and the Azores was published in the Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France.
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The Prince of Monaco's Hirondelle II campaigns collected algae later described by L. Gain.
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Abroad
- Azores
Portugal. Orthoptera from the prince's voyages there were published with the Madeiran ones.
The Azores, an Atlantic archipelago that shares plant species with Madeira. The Elucidário records settlement there by Madeiran families such as the Bettencourts, the 1801 ban on Azorean wines in Madeira, and imports of Azorean tobacco. It also notes that Azorean farmers were brought to Madeira to teach maize-growing methods.
- Deserta Grande
Santa Cruz · Desertas. The prince visited it in March 1888 and described it in his book.
The largest island of the Desertas, 490 m high, seasonally visited by hunters, fishers and orchil gatherers. The steamer Lagos ran aground there in 1902, and it was visited by the Prince of Monaco in 1888 and by the Dana scientists. Its landing at Carga da Lapa is 21.5 miles from Funchal.
People
People mentioned · 03- Albert I1848–1922
Prince Albert I of Monaco (1848–1922), oceanographer who made scientific collections in Madeiran seas on several voyages.
- Alberto Artur Sarmentob. 1878
Translated the prince's chapter on the Deserta Grande and published it in the Heraldo da Madeira.
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Author of a 1914 paper on algae collected during the Hirondelle II campaigns of 1911–12.