| Miot boarded the Astrée on July 17,1868 as Chief of Staff of the Pacific Naval Command under Cloué who had just finished writing the new
"Pilote de Terre-Neuve," corrected and completed after some twenty years of on-site observations and studies. |
Among other stop-offs, Miot landed in Montevideo in 1868, San Francisco, Valparaiso and Papeete in 1869, in Chile again, then the Marquezas Islands in 1870 and did not return to France until January 14, 1871. He brought back an important series of photographs on Oceania, some of which served to illustrate Le Tour du Monde in 1875 and 1876.
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