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Bruny Island, Van Diemen's Land13 January 1802 - 19 February 1802

Fertile Van Diemen's Land delights Baudin's savants and they enthusiastically collect and study its diverse flora and fauna. While their encounters with the Nuenonne people are unpredictable, there are moments of genuine exchange. When they sing to an Aboriginal woman Arra-Maïda, she responds with a song of her own.

Peron

  • Aboriginal dwelling
    Artist Nicolas-Martin Petit
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—18014-2

  • Coastal profiles of 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—18 027

  • Arra-Maïda—Van Diemen’s Land.
    Artist Nicolas-Martin Petit
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—20004-2R

  • Stingaree—Urolophus cruciatus
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—76753R

  • Terre de Diémen—Parabéri
    Artist Nicolas-Martin Petit
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—20018-1

  • Caper White butterfly—Belenois java teutonia
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—73009

  • Spotted handfish—Brachionichthys hirsutus
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—76721

  • Green rosella—Platycercus caledonicus
    Artist Charles- Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—79030

  • Short-beaked echidna—Tachyglossus aculeatus
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—80031

  • Coastal profile from mooring–D’Entrecasteaux Channel
    Archives nationales de France—sèrie Marine 5JJ/51/1-A6