Naturaliste sails from King Island bound for France
6 December 1802 - 8 December 1802
Commanders Baudin and Hamelin share a farewell supper at King Island waiting for winds to carry Naturaliste home to France and Géographe west to complete a survey of Kangaroo Island. Casuarina, under Louis Freycinet, is sent to survey South Australia’s two gulfs which the French later name for Bonaparte and Josephine.
Baudin
Helmsman on Géographe
Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—13017
Gèographe and Naturaliste at sea
Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—13034R
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—18027
Chain of salps—Pegea confoederata
Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—75015
Gillblotch leatherjacket—Pervagor janthinosoma
Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—76152
Blenny—Blenniidae
Artist Nicolas-Martin Petit
Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—76307
John Dory—Zeus faber
Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—76443
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