Complex sentence: The first European visitor to the islands was the French ship "Espérance" in 1793; the ship's navigator Bruni d'Entrecasteaux named them after his first lieutenant, Denis de Trobriand.
Split into simpler sentences: The first European visitor to the islands was the French ship "Espérance" in 1793. The ship's navigator Bruni d'Entrecasteaux named them after his first lieutenant, Denis de Trobriand.