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English: The presentation of the subdivisions proposed by Dumont d’Urville published in the Bulletin de la Société de Géographie included, on the first page, a map carving out the new regions of “Malaysia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia” by means of a dotted line. The same map, showing differently coloured areas for better differentiation, was published in 1833 in the account of the Voyage of the Astrolabe.This is the map presented here: “Carte pour l’intelligence du mémoire de M. le Capitaine d’Urville sur les îles du Grand Océan (Océanie), J. Tastu Editeur, D & G [dessiné et gravé] par A. Tardieu: Voyage de l’Astrolabe – partie historique” [Map for understanding Captain d’Urville’s memoir on the islands of the Great Ocean (Oceania), J. Tastu Publisher, D & G [drawn and engraved] by A. Tardieu: Voyage of the Astrolabe – historical part], included in the Voyage de La corvette l'Astrolabe executé pendant les années 1826-27-28-29… par M. Jules Dumont d’Urville, Partie historique, Paris, J. Tastu, 1833.