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
Matthew Flinders
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Captain Matthew Flinders was a British Royal Navy officer, navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of mainland Australia, then called New Holland. He is also credited as
Nicolas Baudin
…with more than 2,500 new species discovered. The French 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…
Portrait by Antoine Toussaint de Chazal, c. 1806–1807
1799 Flinders Expedition plaque at Mount Beerburrum, one of the Glass House Mountains in Queensland, Australia
Flinders in 1801, a miniature portrait on ivory
Church of St Mary and the Holy Rood, Donington, Lincolnshire, where Flinders was baptised, and was reburied in 2024