-
1 Mururoa
-
2 Mururoa
атолл Муруроа (Франц. Полинезия) -
3 Mururoa (Atoll)
Un panorama unique de l'anglais et du français > Mururoa (Atoll)
-
4 Mururoa Atolls test site
французский полигон ядерных испытаний на атоле Муруроа; полигон ядерных испытаний на атоле МуруроаEnglish-Russian small dictionary of medicine > Mururoa Atolls test site
-
5 atoll
atoll [atɔl]masculine noun* * *atɔlnom masculin atoll* * *atɔl nm* * *atoll nm atoll; l'atoll de Mururoa (the) Mururoa atoll; sur un atoll du Pacifique on an atoll in the Pacific.[atɔl] nom masculin -
6 Муруроа
атолл (Франц. Полинезия) Mururoa -
7 Rainbow Warrior
Ship belonging to Greenpeace, that was blown up and sunk in 1985, in Auckland Harbour, New Zealand, in a covert operation by the French intelligence service. A Greenpeace photographer was killed in the operation. It was revealed many years later that this operation - which was described as an act of international terrorism - had been personally authorized by President Mitterrand. French involvement was suspected right from the start, as the Rainbow Warrior was scheduled to protest against French nuclear testing at Mururoa Atoll, in the southern Pacific.However, initially, the French denied all involvement, until the true story was uncovered by a pair of investigative journalists fromBritain's Sunday Times newspaper.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Rainbow Warrior
-
8 Cousteau, Jacques-Yves
SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping[br]b. 11 June 1910 Saint-André-de-Cubzac, France[br]French marine explorer who invented the aqualung.[br]He was the son of a country lawyer who became legal advisor and travelling companion to certain rich Americans. At an early age Cousteau acquired a love of travel, of the sea and of cinematography: he made his first film at the age of 13. After an interrupted education he nevertheless passed the difficult entrance examination to the Ecole Navale in Brest, but his naval career was cut short in 1936 by injuries received in a serious motor accident. For his long recuperation he was drafted to Toulon. There he met Philippe Tailliez, a fellow naval officer, and Frédéric Dumas, a champion spearfisher, with whom he formed a long association and began to develop his underwater swimming and photography. He apparently took little part in the Second World War, but under cover he applied his photographic skills to espionage, for which he was awarded the Légion d'honneur after the war.Cousteau sought greater freedom of movement underwater and, with Emile Gagnan, who worked in the laboratory of Air Liquide, he began experimenting to improve portable underwater breathing apparatus. As a result, in 1943 they invented the aqualung. Its simple design and robust construction provided a reliable and low-cost unit and revolutionized scientific and recreational diving. Gagnan shunned publicity, but Cousteau revelled in the new freedom to explore and photograph underwater and exploited the publicity potential to the full.The Undersea Research Group was set up by the French Navy in 1944 and, based in Toulon, it provided Cousteau with the Opportunity to develop underwater exploration and filming techniques and equipment. Its first aims were minesweeping and exploration, but in 1948 Cousteau pioneered an extension to marine archaeology. In 1950 he raised the funds to acquire a surplus US-built minesweeper, which he fitted out to further his quest for exploration and adventure and named Calypso. Cousteau also sought and achieved public acclaim with the publication in 1953 of The Silent World, an account of his submarine observations, illustrated by his own brilliant photography. The book was an immediate success and was translated into twenty-two languages. In 1955 Calypso sailed through the Red Sea and the western Indian Ocean, and the outcome was a film bearing the same title as the book: it won an Oscar and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival. This was his favoured medium for the expression of his ideas and observations, and a stream of films on the same theme kept his name before the public.Cousteau's fame earned him appointment by Prince Rainier as Director of the Oceanographie Institute in Monaco in 1957, a post he held until 1988. With its museum and research centre, it offered Cousteau a useful base for his worldwide activities.In the 1980s Cousteau turned again to technological development. Like others before him, he was concerned to reduce ships' fuel consumption by harnessing wind power. True to form, he raised grants from various sources to fund research and enlisted technical help, namely Lucien Malavard, Professor of Aerodynamics at the Sorbonne. Malavard designed a 44 ft (13.4 m) high non-rotating cylinder, which was fitted onto a catamaran hull, christened Moulin à vent. It was intended that its maiden Atlantic crossing in 1983 should herald a new age in ship propulsion, with large royalties to Cousteau. Unfortunately the vessel was damaged in a storm and limped to the USA under diesel power. A more robust vessel, the Alcyone, was fitted with two "Turbosails" in 1985 and proved successful, with a 40 per cent reduction in fuel consumption. However, oil prices fell, removing the incentive to fit the new device; the lucrative sales did not materialize and Alcyone remained the only vessel with Turbosails, sharing with Calypso Cousteau's voyages of adventure and exploration. In September 1995, Cousteau was among the critics of the decision by the French President Jacques Chirac to resume testing of nuclear explosive devices under the Mururoa atoll in the South Pacific.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsLégion d'honneur. Croix de Guerre with Palm. Officier du Mérite Maritime and numerous scientific and artistic awards listed in such directories as Who's Who.Bibliography1953, The Silent World.1972, The Ocean World of Jacques Cousteau, 21 vols.Further ReadingR.Munson, 1991, Cousteau, the Captain and His World, London: Robert Hale (published in the USA 1989).LRD
См. также в других словарях:
Mururoa — Localización País … Wikipedia Español
Mururoa — atoll de la Polynésie française (îles Tuamotu); 3 000 hab. Centre d essais nucléaires … Encyclopédie Universelle
Mururoa — Vorlage:Infobox Insel/Wartung/Höhe fehlt Mururoa NASA Aufnahme von Mururoa Gewässer Pazifischer Ozean Archipel … Deutsch Wikipedia
Mururoa — Moruroa Moruroa Mururoa Carte de Mururoa Géographie Pays … Wikipédia en Français
Mururoa — ▪ island, French Polynesia atoll at the southeastern tip of the Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia, in the central South Pacific Ocean, about 700 miles (1,125 km) southeast of Tahiti. Uninhabited and used for growing coconuts before its… … Universalium
Mururoa-Atoll — Lage von Mururoa in Französisch Polynesien Die Lagune von Mururoa, 1972 Mururoa (eigentlich Moruroa; in der Landessprache in etwa: „großes Geheimnis“) ist ein rund 300 Quadratkilometer großes unbewohntes Atoll im … Deutsch Wikipedia
mururoa — Lugar del Pacífico Sur, en la Polinesia Francesa, donde se realizaron pruebas nucleares … Diccionario ecologico
Mururoa — ► Atolón de las islas Tuamotú, en la Polinesia Francesa, donde Francia realiza pruebas nucleares desde 1963 … Enciclopedia Universal
Mururoa — n. French colony located in the southeast corner of the Taumotu archipelago in French Polynesia … English contemporary dictionary
Mururoa-Atoll — Mururọa Atoll, Atoll der Tuamotuinseln im Pazifischen Ozean, Französisch Polynesien, Durchmesser etwa 10 km; französisches Testgebiet für Kernwaffen (erste Versuchsserie 1966, seit 1975 nur noch unterirdische Explosionen, in 600 1 200 m Tiefe … Universal-Lexikon
Mururoa Atoll — /murəroʊə ˈætɒl/ (say moohruhrohuh atol) noun a coral atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago, in the southern Pacific; scene of French nuclear tests since 1966 …
