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Baudin encounters Matthew Flinders on the southern coast8 April 1802

Géographe encounters Investigator off the Fleurieu Peninsula. Flinders and his French-speaking botanist Robert Brown board Géographe and swap information with Baudin about safe anchorages and dangerous reefs. They agree to meet again the next morning to share charts.

Baudin

  • Brown-flecked jellyfish—Chrysaora southcotti
    Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—70062-2

  • Pheasant shell—Phasianella australis
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—72059

  • Bridled leatherjacket—Acanthaluteres spilomelanurus
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—76131

  • Weedy seadragon—Phyllopteryx taeniolatus
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—76743

  • Unidentified fish (possibly Gurnard perch)
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—76956

  • Coorong—8 April, 1802
    Charles-Alexandre Lesueur and/or Nicolas-Martin Petit
    Archives nationales de France—série Marine 5JJ511-50