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  • Geographe & Naturaliste
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The survey ends and Baudin turns homeward3 June 1803 - 7 July 1803

Baudin pushes east from Timor hoping to chart the Gulf of Carpentaria. He sails against the winds for four weeks but reaches no further east than present day Darwin. Twenty crew are sick, precious emus and kangaroos are refusing to eat, stocks of food and water are desperately low and Baudin is coughing blood. Defeated, Géographe and Casuarina turn around and head for Ile de France.

Baudin

  • Jellyfish—Toxorchis thalassinus
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—70022

  • Three shells of Australian gastropods
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—72051

  • Various gastropods
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—72053

  • Sea squirts—Asciandians
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—75020

  • Moorish idol—Zanclus canescens
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—76355

  • Sargassum fish—Histrio histrio
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—76722

  • Collared kingfisher—Halcyon chloris
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—79021

  • Black-eared flying fox–Pteropus edulis
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—80040

  • Northern brushtail possum—Trichosurus arnhemensis
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur,
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—80090