# Round the Moon — Character guide

> Key figures in Round the Moon by Jules Verne.

- [Michel Ardan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/round_the_moon_se/characters/michel_ardan.md): Ardan is the expedition's amateur, the one passenger who joined by charm and nerve rather than credentials, and he knows it. Where Barbicane calculates and Nicholl doubts, Ardan jokes — striking a match on his boot sole,
- [Impey Barbicane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/round_the_moon_se/characters/impey_barbicane.md): Barbicane commands the expedition with the composure of a countinghouse clerk, settling accounts with Nicholl mid-voyage and checking his chronometer against Murchison's to the tenth of a second. His authority rests on p
- [Captain Nicholl](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/round_the_moon_se/characters/captain_nicholl.md): Nicholl boarded the projectile as Barbicane's adversary and remains its most methodical passenger, sealing the plates, timing the departure, demanding a written receipt for money exchanged in a vessel that may never retu
- [J. T. Maston](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/round_the_moon_se/characters/j_t_maston.md): Maston stays behind while his friends ride the bullet, and his vigil at the great reflector becomes the Earthbound half of the story. He argues with Belfast like a man possessed, insists he can see Ardan's face at a port
- [Diana](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/round_the_moon_se/characters/diana.md): Dog belonging to the travelers, accidentally launched into space with them.
- [Captain Blomsberry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/round_the_moon_se/characters/captain_blomsberry.md): Commander of the Susquehanna, assists in the recovery of the projectile.
- [J. Belfast](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/round_the_moon_se/characters/j_belfast.md): Astronomer at the Cambridge Observatory, provides calculations for the voyage.
- [Lieutenant Bronsfield](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/round_the_moon_se/characters/lieutenant_bronsfield.md): Officer on the Susquehanna, assists in the search for the projectile.
- [Major Elphinstone](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/round_the_moon_se/characters/major_elphinstone.md): Member of the Gun Club, present at the departure of the projectile.
- [Murchison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/round_the_moon_se/characters/murchison.md): Engineer who oversees the casting of the Columbiad.

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