Bougainville
# Bougainville

Bougainville may refer to:

## 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
