Benoît Antheaume (born 1946) is a French geographer, specialising in the South Pacific region. He holds a doctorate in geography and is research director at the scientific institute ORSTOM. He has undertaken numerous research missions in Oceania, including in New Caledonia and New Zealand, and has written numerous scientific articles, as well as an Atlas of New Caledonia and an Atlas of the Islands and States of the Pacific with Joel Bonnemaison. Source: Wikipedia (en)