Nicolas Baudin
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Nicolas Thomas Baudin was a French explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer best known for his explorations of Australia and the southern Pacific Ocean. He carried a few corms of Gros Miche
1800 portrait
Bust of Baudin in Albany, Western Australia
Model of Géographe, now exhibited at the Ernest Cognacq Museum in Saint-Martin-de-Ré in Charente-Maritime, France.
Nicolas Baudin Monument at Albany, Western Australia
Encounter Bay
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Encounter Bay is a bay in the Australian state of South Australia located on the state's south central coast about 100 kilometres south of the state capital of Adelaide. It was named by Matthew Flinde
Nicolas Baudin
…also met Aboriginal peoples and treated them with great respect. In April 1802, Baudin met Matthew Flinders, also engaged in charting the coastline, in Encounter Bay in present-day South Australia. Baudin then stopped at the British colony at Sydney for supplies, and from there he sent home Naturaliste, carrying all…
Encounter Bay from Port Elliot, South Australia