HMS Investigator (1801)
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HMS Investigator was built as the mercantile Fram and launched in 1795. Purchased in 1798 by the Royal Navy she was renamed HMS Xenophon, and then in 1801 converted to a survey ship under the name HMS
20th-century drawing of HMS Investigator.
Matthew Flinders, commander of HMS Investigator.
The Baudin expedition of 1800 to 1803 was a French expedition to map the coast of New Holland. It was approved by Napoléon Bonaparte and Nicolas Baudin was selected as its leader. It started with two
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Sydney during visit by Baudin, c. 1802, engraving based on work by Charles Alexandre Lesueur
Memorial rock marking the place where Baudin came ashore at Penneshaw on Kangaroo Island in 1803
Frenchman's Rock, Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island