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King George Sound17 February 1803 - 1 March 1803

Géographe and the Casuarina finally meet at King George Sound after being separated at Kangaroo Island. Tents are erected onshore for sick seafarers and for the naturalists. The botanist Leschenault and Guichenot the gardener, collect over 200 new species of dried and living botanical specimens.

Baudin

  • Carpet python—Morelia spilota
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—78107

  • Circular huts—Shark Bay
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—16033

  • Sea anemones—Actiniaria
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—71002

  • Red sea toad—Schizophrys aspera
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—73122

  • Ocellate sea star—Nectria ocellata
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—74020-2

  • Sea star—unidentified
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—74037

  • Sand sifting sea star—Archaster angulatus
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—74060

  • Terre de Leeuwin
    Archives nationales de France—série Marine 5JJ51-127