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

Naturaliste sails from King Island bound for France6 December 1802 - 8 December 1802

Commanders Baudin and Hamelin share a farewell supper at King Island waiting for winds to carry Naturaliste home to France and Géographe west to complete a survey of Kangaroo Island. Casuarina, under Louis Freycinet, is sent to survey South Australia’s two gulfs which the French later name for Bonaparte and Josephine.

Baudin

  • Helmsman on Géographe
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—13017

  • Gèographe and Naturaliste at sea
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—13034R

  • Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania)—Mewstone, Iles de Witt, Ile Tasman, east coast of Tasman Peninsula
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur and/or Nicolas-Martin Petit
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—18027

  • Chain of salps—Pegea confoederata
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—75015

  • Gillblotch leatherjacket—Pervagor janthinosoma
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—76152

  • Blenny—Blenniidae
    Artist Nicolas-Martin Petit
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—76307

  • John Dory—Zeus faber
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—76443