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
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
Nicolas Baudin
…October 1800, Baudin was selected by Bonaparte, whose wife Josephine had something of a fascination with Australia, to lead what has become known as the Baudin expedition to map the coast of New Holland. He had two ships, Géographe and Naturaliste captained by Hamelin, and a suite of nine zoologists and botanists, including…
Géographe and Naturaliste
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