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Port Jackson8 May 1802 - 22 July 1802

The Investigator lands in Port Jackson. Ten weeks are spent in the colony while the ship is repaired and stocked. The Governor of NSW places the brig Lady Nelson under Flinders' command and instructs him to proceed next to the Torres Strait. Nine convicts are recruited to replace the men lost at Memory Cove. Two Aboriginal crew also join the expedition: Bongaree and a boy, Nanbaree. Captain Baudin arrives on 20 June in Le Geographe. The French officers and crew are much reduced by scurvy.

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  • Port Jackson, a native
    Artist William Westall
    National Library of Australia—138878522

  • Water rat—Hydromys chrysogaster
    Artist Ferdinand L Bauer
    Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien—Port Jackson 1802, AfW-FLB0329

  • Bungaree A Native Chief of N.S. Wales
    Artist Augustus Earle
    Art Gallery of South Australia—20045G15

  • Rose she-oak or forest oak—Allocasuarina torulosa
    Artist Ferdinand L Bauer
    Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London—Australian Botanical Drawings 156, 6959

  • Sydney, Government House
    Artist William Westall
    National Library of Australia—138873721