Bougainville

Bougainville may refer to:

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Places

• Autonomous Region of Bougainville, historically known as the North Solomons, an autonomous region in Papua New Guinea
  • Bougainville Island, the main island of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea
    • Bougainville campaign, World War II
• Bougainville, Somme, a commune in Somme département, France
• Bougainville Strait, a strait which separates Choiseul Island (Solomon Islands) from Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea)
• Cape Bougainville, East Falkland, Falkland Islands, Falklands (United Kingdom); a cape
• Isla Bougainville, the Spanish name for Lively Island in the Falkland Islands

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
• Jean-Pierre de Bougainville (1722-1763), French writer, member of the Académie française, brother to Louis Antoine de Bougainville

Ships

• French ship Bougainville, various French ships named in honour of Louis Antoine de Bougainville
• Bougainville-class aviso, a group of colonial avisos, or sloops, built for the French Navy during the 1930s
• USS Bougainville (CVE-100), later CVU-100, a United States Navy Casablanca-class escort aircraft carrier
• CMA CGM Bougainville, a motor vessel, container ship of the French company CMA CGM, flagged by France

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
• The Tetherballs of Bougainville, a 1998 novel by American author Mark Leyner

Other uses

• Comte de Bougainville (Count of Bougainville), a French title of nobility held by Louis Antoine de Bougainville
• Bougainville Park, Papeete, French Polynesia (France); a park in Papeete

See also

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• All pages with titles containing Bougainville or Bougainvilles
• All pages with titles beginning with Bougainville
• Bougainvillea, a genus of flowering plants native to South America
• Bougainvillia, a genus of hydroids
• Bougainvilliidae, a familia of hydroids
• Bougainville Campaign, a World War II military campaign fought from 1943 to 1945 between the Allies and Japan on and around Bougainville Island
  • Bougainville counterattack, a battle within the campaign during March 1944
• Bougainville Civil War, 1988–1998
• Bougainville People's Congress, a pro-independence organisation and later political party
• New Bougainville Party, founded 2005

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