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Géographe sights Kangaroo Island6 January 1803 - 1 February 1803

The French become the first Europeans to circumnavigate the island and Baudin names it 'Borda' after a French mariner and mathematician. The naturalists capture dwarf emus and kangaroos and keep them in pens on deck. Zoologist Péron records monstrous sharks ’prowling around the ship in search of food, numbing with terror all those who saw them’.

Baudin

  • Velvet sea star—Petricia vernicina
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—74049

  • Rosenberg’s goanna—Varanus rosenbergi
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—78112

  • Emu—dromaius sp.
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—79001-1

  • Scarlet robin—Petroica boodang
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—79005

  • Western grey kangaroo—Macropus fuliginosus
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—80057

  • Australian sea lion—Neophoca cinerea
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—80676

  • Draft map—Ile Decrès (Kangaroo Island)
    Archives nationales de France—MAP6JJ4A-p.33

  • Map of two coves on the north-east coast of Kangaroo Island
    Archives nationales de France—MAP6JJ4A-p.35

  • Southern coast and Ile Borda (Kangaroo island)
    Archives nationales de France—série Marine 5JJ51-106

  • Ravine des Casoars, west coast of Kangaroo Island
    Archives nationales de France—série Marine 5JJ51 BIS-118