Bougainville

Bougainville may refer to:

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

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

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

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

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

Botany

• Bougainvillea, a genus of flowering plants native to South America