Bougainville may refer to:
Places
Autonomous Region of Bougainville, historically known as the North Solomons, 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
See also
Bougainvillea, a genus of flowering plants native to South America
Bougainvillia, a genus of hydroids
Bougainvilliidae, a familia of hydroids
Bougainville Campaign, a World War II military campaign fought from 1943 to 1945 between the Allies and Japan on and around Bougainville Island Bougainville counterattack, a battle within the campaign during March 1944 Bougainville Civil War, 1988–1998 Bougainville People's Congress, a pro-independence organisation and later political party New Bougainville Party, founded 2005