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  • Geographe & Naturaliste
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  • Naturaliste
  • Geographe (after November 1802)

Géographe arrives at Port Jackson20 June 1802 - 17 November 1802

Géographe limps into port eight weeks after Naturaliste. Only 12 of the 170 onboard are fit for duty and English crew from HMS Investigator help tow the ship into port. The French and British refit their ships at Bennelong Point, the officers are entertained by Governor King, and Baudin and Flinders meet again. Baudin purchases the shallow-draughted schooner Casuarina to replace the Naturaliste.

Peron

  • Music from Port Jackson and Timor
    Notation by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur and Pierre-Charles Bernier
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—16057R

  • Panorama of Port Jackson—French camp at Bennelong Point in the foreground.
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—16063-1

  • View of Sydney
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—16067

  • View of Port Jackson harbour
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—16071-3

  • Plan of Sydney Town
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—16074-2

  • Aboriginal couple in canoe
    Artist Nicolas Martin-Petit (on board Géographe)
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre–20025-1

  • New Holland man picking up spear with his foot
    Artist Nicolas-Martin Petit
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—20031-1

  • Woman of the Cam-mer-ray-gal tribe from Port Jackson
    Artist Nicolas-Martin Petit
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—22034-2

  • Tree frogs from Australia and the Seychelles
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—77001

  • Eastern snake-necked turtles—Chelodina longicollis
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—78086

  • Lizards from Australia and the Indian Ocean
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre–78115

  • Platypus—Ornithorhynchus anatinus
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—80033

  • Feathertail glider—Acrobates pygmaeus
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—80097