BOOKS

 

THE FRENCH EXPEDITION LED BY NICOLAS BAUDIN

Péron, François and Freycinet, Louis
Voyages de découvertes aux Terres Australes, exécuté par ordre de sa majesté l’empereur et roi, sur les corvettes le Geographe, le Naturaliste, et la goelette le Casuarina, pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804; publié par décret impérial, sous le ministere de M. de Champagny, et rédigé par M. F. Péron, naturaliste de l’expedition...
Paris, Imprimerie Imperiale, 1807-1816.
3 vols. + quarto atlas in 2 parts (1811) and imperial folio atlas (1812).

Volumes 1 & 2 have contents Historique and volume 3 Navigation et géographie respectively. Volume 2 has title: Voyage de decouvertes...publié par ordre... le Ministere Secretaire d’etat de l’interieur. Rédigé en partie par feu F. Péron et continue par M. Louis Freycinet.... Volume 3 has title: Voyage de decouvertes...sous le commandement du Capitaine de vaissons N. Baudin. Publié par ordre de …Ministere de la Marine et des Colonies, et rédigé par M. Louis de Freycinet. Atlas partie historique rédigée par M. F.Péron; Atlas deuxieme partie rédigée par M. L. Freycinet. rg910.4/P453/d/Sp

 

Péron, François and Freycinet, Louis
Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes, fait par ordre du gouvernment, sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste, et la goëlette le Casuarina, pendant les anneés 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804: historique. Rédigée par Péron, et continué par m. Louis de Freycinet.
2ieme ed., revue, corrigée et augmentée par M. Louis de Freycinet...
Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1824. 4 volumes. rg910.4/P453.2/Sp

This second edition of the ‘Partie Historique’ contains some significant changes and additions to the first edition. (Wantrup page 159).

 

[Péron, François]
Historical relation of a voyage undertaken for the discovery of southern lands. [From the French of M. Peron, one of the naturalists appointed by the French Government to accompany the Expedition.]

In A general collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world; many of which are now first translated into English. By John Pinkerton. London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812. Volume 11, pages 739-952. Note that this is volume 1 only of Peron’s account of the expedition. rg910.4/b

 

Baudin, Nicolas
The journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin, commander-in -chief of the corvettes Géographe and Naturaliste, assigned by order of the Government to a voyage of discovery. Translated from the French by Christine Cornell, with a foreword by J-P. Faivre.
Adelaide, Libraries Board of SA, 1974. rga910.4/b

 

Bory de St. Vincent, Jean Baptiste Genevieve Marcellin, Baron
Voyage to, and travels through the four principal islands of the African seas, performed by order of the French government, during the years 1801 and 1802, with a narrative of the passage of Captain Baudin to Port Louis in the Mauritius. By J.B.G.M. Bory de St. Vincent, officer of the staff and chief naturalist on board Le Naturaliste sloop of war, in the expedition of discovery commanded by Captain Baudin.
London, Richard Phillips, 1805. rg916/B739/Sp

Historical Records of Australia, Series I, volumes 3-5. Sydney, Library Committee of the Commonwealth Parliament, 1915. Volume 3 contains letters to and from Governor King and Captain Kemp, explanation of charges against his officers, Baudin’s meeting with Flinders, purchase of provisions etc. Volume 4, page 98-99 has Baudin’s letter to Mrs King, regarding a donation to the Orphan Institution in the colony, together with Mrs King’s reply, together with bills drawn by Baudin on the French government. Volume 5 contains letters from Baudin to the Governors of Mauritius and Reunion, and a report of the treatment he received in Port Jackson. rgper994/a

 

Historical Records of New South Wales, volume 4, Appendix: Baudin Papers. Sydney, Government Printer, 1896. Pages 941-1010.
Contains a series of letters from Nicolas Baudin and Emmanuel Hamelin, Commanders of the French ships Le Geographe and Le Naturaliste to Governor King, together with his replies, and other documents relating to the visit of the ships to Port Jackson. rga994.4/a

Also check index for several other references.

 

Milius, Pierre Bernard
Recit du voyage aux Terres Australes par Pierre Bernard Milius, Second sur le "Naturaliste" dans l’expedition Baudin (1800-1804). [Le Havre], Societe Havraise d’etudes diverses Museum d’Histoire Naturelle du Havre, [1987]. rga919.4042/M644/b

 

Turnbull, John
A voyage round the world, in the years 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804; in which the author visited Madeira, the Brazils, Cape of Good Hope, the English settlements of Botany Bay and Norfolk Island; and the principal islands in the Pacific Ocean. With a continuation of their history to the present period. Second edition. London, A. Maxwell, 1813. Pages 475-490 contain A narrative of the proceedings of the Le Geographe, and Naturaliste, sent on a Voyage of discovery, by the French Government in 1800. This account of the expedition is evidently written by Surgeon Thomson, who was returning to Europe from Port Jackson, as a passenger. Turnbull encountered the French expedition at Sea Elephant Bay, King Island in December 1802. rg910.41/T942.2/d/sp


BOOKS ABOUT THE FRENCH EXPEDITION

Ageorges, Roger
Ile de re, terres australes: les voyages du capitaine Baudin, marin et naturaliste.
[Paris?], GER, [1994]. rga919.4042/B338.A

 

Cooper, Harold More
French exploration in South Australia, with a special reference to Encounter Bay, Kangaroo Island, the two gulfs and Murat Bay, 1802-1803. [Adelaide, H.M. Cooper, 1952], 200p. Limited edition 140/200 copies. rg994.2/C777/b/sp

A review of this book by Archibald Grenfell Price can be found in volume 53, 1951-52, pages 47-51 of the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (SA Branch).

 

Cornell, Christine
Questions relating to Nicolas Baudin’s Australian expedition 1800-1804.
Adelaide, Libraries Board of SA, 1965. rga994/a

 

Cullity, Thomas Brendan
Vasse: an account of the disappearance of Thomas Timothee Vasse. Perth, T.B.Cullity, 1992. rgpam919.412/V338.C/b

Vasse was assistant helmsman on the Le Naturaliste and disappeared in the wild surf of Geographe Bay, Western Australia. The accounts of his disappearance vary greatly and Cullity has assembled them in an attempt to unravel the truth.

Dunmore, John
Visions & Realities. France in the Pacific 1695-1995. Waikanae, Heritage Press, 1997.
[pp 116-124 provide a useful overview of the Baudin expedition] rga995.00441/D922

 

Early French voyages to Australia=Les Premieres expeditions françaises vers l’Australie: a portfolio of reproductions published by Banque Nationale de Paris to celebrate the centenary of its establishment in Australia... typography and design by Peter Buckmaster. Melbourne, Banque Nationale de Paris, 1981.
Reproduces some of the plates from Baudin’s expedition:

  • View of Sydney (plate 38)
  • Tasmanian Aborigines (plates 9 & 11)
  • Emu (plate 34)
  • Platypus (plate 36)
  • General map of New Holland (plate 1 of Imperial folio atlas)
  • General map of Terre Napoleon (in New Holland) (plate 10 of imperial folio atlas)
  • portrait of Nicolas Baudin

rg994.01/E12/d/Sp

 

Faivre, Jean-Paul
L’expansion François dans Pacifique, 1800-1842.
Paris, Nouvelles Editions Latines, 1953. rg990a

 

Horner, Frank
The French reconnaissance. Baudin in Australia, 1801-1803. Melbourne University Press, 1987. rga919.4042/H815

 

Hunt, Susan
Terre Napoleon: Australia through French eyes 1800-1804. By Susan Hunt and Paul Carter. Sydney, Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales in association with Hordern House, 1999. rga919.4042/H943/b

Jose, Arthur W. Nicolas Baudin. Volume 20, 1934 pages 337-396 of the Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Australian Historical Society. rgper994

 

Kelly, Michael
François Péron’s hatred of Nicolas Baudin.
Michael Kelly, 1965.
Address to W.A. Historical Society, August 27, 1965. rgpam920/P453.K

 

Kelly, Michael
Anniversary of the discovery of Port Fairy, April 25, 1810. Nicolas Baudin (1754-1803) denigrated discoverer of Port Fairy. n.pl., Michael Kelly, 1965. rgpam920/B338.K

 

Lesueur, Charles Alexandre
Les velins de Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (Museum d’Histoire Naturelle du Havre): exposition du 4 mai au 2 juin 1996. Le Havre, France, The Museum, 1996. rga741.944/L644/b

 

Le voyage aux Terres Australes 1800-1804, Ville de Honfleur, Musee Eugene Boudin, 4 Mai-24 Juin, 1996 concu par Anne-Marie Bergeret. Honfleur, Musee Eugene Boudin, 1996. rgpam919.4042/V975/c

Journal of an exhibition held from 4 May to 24 June 1996 at Honfleur, the birthplace of Emmanuel Hamelin who was captain of the Naturaliste, one of the two vessels of Baudin’s expedition to Australia 1800-1804. The exhibition was held to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the death of Charles-Alexandre Lesueur. Contains a short biography of Admiral Emmanuel Hamelin and two of the artists of the voyage, Charles-Alexandre Lesueur and Nicolas-Martin Petit. In French, with portraits of Hamelin and Lesueur, and drawings of the two ships.

Marchant, Leslie
France Australe. A study of French explorations and attempts to found a penal colony and strategic base in south Western Australia, 1503-1826.
Perth, Artlook Books, 1982. rga919.41041/M315

 

Mers australes - terres australes: voyages et decouvertes.
Le Havre, France, Bibliotheque Municipale Armand Salacrou, [1996?]. rgpam919.4042/M574

 

Petit, Nicolas-Martin
Oeuvres de Nicolas-Martin Petit, artiste du voyage aux Terres australes (1800-1804): exposition du 1er juin au 31 decembre 1997. Le Havre, France, Museum d’histoire naturelle du Havre, Collection Lesueur, 1997. rga741.994/P489/b

 

Plomley, Brian, Cornell, Christine and Banks, Max
François Péron’s natural history of Maria Island, Tasmania. Number 99 of the Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston. Launceston, 1990. rgper507.946

 

Scott, Ernest
Terre Napoléon: a history of French explorations and projects in Australia. London, Methuen, 1910. rga994a

 

Terre Napoléon: an encounter. An exhibition presented by the Alliance Française de l’Australie du Sud to celebrate the 150th anniversary of South Australia.
[Adelaide]: Alliance Francaise de l’Australie du Sud, [1986].
28, [4] p. of col. plates: ill. ; 24cm.

Exhibition held at State Library of South Australia 8/9/86-25/10/86, National Library of Australia 3/11/86-28/11/86, Art Gallery of New South Wales 8/12/86-9/1/87.
Preface in French.
rgpam759.4/T325

 

Triebel, L.A. and Batt, J.C.
French exploration of Australia. With special reference to Tasmania.
[Hobart], Government Printer, 1957. rga994a

 

Wallace, Colin
The lost Australia of François Péron. London, Nottingham Court Press, 1984. rga919.4042/P453.W


THE ENGLISH EXPEDITION LED BY MATTHEW FLINDERS

Flinders, Matthew
A voyage to Terra Australis: undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty’s ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the Armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner with an account of the shipwreck of the Porpoise, arrival of the Cumberland at Mauritius, and imprisonment of the commander during six years and a half in that island. 2 volumes and atlas. London, G. & W. Nicol, 1814. 2 copies. rg919.4/F622/d/Sp

copy 1: Inscribed to Sir John Franklin of Van Diemen’s Land from Robert Brown [botanist on the voyage]. Also has pasted in a photocopy of the genealogy of the Flinders and Franklin families. [Franklin served on the voyage as a midshipman]. Ex Libris Thomas Gill

copy 2; York Gate Library number 2428.

 

Flinders, Matthew
A voyage to Terra Australis...2 volumes and chart case. Facsimile edition. Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1966. rga919.4/c

 

Flinders, Matthew
A voyage to Terra Australis. 2 volumes and atlas. Facsimile edition. Netley, S.A., South Australian Government Printer, 1989. rg919.4042/F622/d/Sp

 

Brown, Robert
Prodromus florae novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum, quas annis 1802-1805, per oras utriusque insulae collegit et descripsit Robertus Brown; insertis passim aliis speciebus, auctori hucusque cognitis, seu evulgatis, seu ineditis, praesertim Banksianis, in primo itinere navarchi Cook detectis. Editio secunda quam ad fidem exempli prioris editionis, ab ipso auctore emendati, typis excudi curavit C.G. Nees ab Esenbeck...vol. 1. Norimbergae, Leonardi Schrag, 1827. rg581.9/B879/Sp

This is the second amended edition of Robert Brown’s botanical work of the Investigator voyage. The text is in Latin. Only volume 1 was published.

 

Brown, Robert
Prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae: exhibens Proteaceas novas quas in Australasia legerunt Dd. Baxter, Caley, Cunningham, Fraser et Sieber; et quarum e siccis exemplaribus characteres elaboravit Robertus Brown. Supplementum primum. Londini, Typis Ricardi Taylor, 1830. rg581.9/B879/Sp

A short supplement of 40 pages to Brown’s Prodromus.

 

[Brown, Robert]
Miscellaneous papers on Australian Aborigines and early exploration...[Collected by Thomas Gill, Sept. 1880] [London, etc., 1830-1843]. 1 volume, various pagings. These papers comprise various extracts from the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society (London), volume numbers and paging being indicated in the table of contents. [2] is Robert Brown’s General view of the botany of the vicinity of Swan River. 1830. rg919/M678/Sp

 

[Bauer, Ferdinand]
An exquisite eye. The Australian flora and fauna drawings 1801-1820 of Ferdinand Bauer. By Peter Watts, Jo Anne Pomfrett and David Mabberley. Sydney, Historic Houses Trust of NSW, 1997. rga743.93/B344/c

Ferdinand Bauer was the natural history artist on the Investigator, commanded by Matthew Flinders. This book was produced to accompany an exhibition held at the Museum of Sydney, 13 December 1997 to 19 April 1998.

 

Westall, William
Drawings by William Westall, landscape artist on board H.M.S. Investigator during the circumnavigation of Australia by Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N., in1801-1803. Edited by T.M. Perry and Donald H. Simpson. London, Royal Commonwealth Society, 1962. rga994T/c

Contents; William Westall’s drawings and paintings on Flinders’ voyage by B.Smith--The charting of Australia by Flinders by D.H. Simpson--An annotated catalogue of William Westall’s drawings in the Royal Commonwealth Society, London by T.M. Perry--An annotated catalogue of other Australian pictures by Westall by D.H. Simpson--A list of the principal books containing plates by or after William Westall.

Note that Westall’s drawings are now held by the National Library of Australia and can be viewed on Images1 on NLA’s website: http://www.nla.gov.au/images1/

 

Perry, T.M.
Offprint from the Drawings of William Westall. London, Royal Commonwealth Society, 1962. rgpam919.4/W522.P/d


BIOGRAPHIES and examination of the work etc. of Matthew Flinders, Robert Brown, Ferdinand Bauer and William Westall etc.

Austin, Kenneth Ashurst comp
Matthew Flinders: on the Victorian coast, April - May 1802: select documents, arranged with introduction and notes by K.A. Austin. Melbourne, Cypress Books, 1974. rga994.502a

 

Austin, Kenneth Ashurst
The voyage of the Investigator. Adelaide, Rigby, 1964. rga994T a

 

Brown, Robert
A fusion of science and art: Robert Brown and Ferdinand Bauer with Matthew Flinders and William Westall aboard the Investigator, 1801-1803. Lance McCarthy, Flinders University, in conjunction with the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide. Adelaide, Flinders University of South Australia, 1996. Catalogue of an exhibition held in the Museum of Economic Botany, Botanic Gardens of Adelaide, 1996. rgpam758.50994/B879/b

 

Cooper, Harold More
The unknown coast being the explorations of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. along the shores of South Australia, 1802. Adelaide, The author, 1953, 173pp. rga994.2/C777/b

 

Cooper, Harold More
The unknown coast (A supplement). Adelaide, The author, 1955. rga994.2/C777/b

 

Davis, Susanna
Matthew Flinders: his life and voyages.
Spalding, England: South Holland Tourism, 1993.
[24] p.: ill., maps, port.; 22cm.
rgpam910.92/F622.D

 

Dunmore, John
Who’s who in Pacific navigation. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1991.
[contains brief biographies of Baudin, Freycinet, Flinders]. rg910.92/D922

 

Findlay, Elisabeth
Arcadian quest. William Westall’s Australian sketches. Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1998. rga741.994/W522.F

First light in 200 years. A selection of thirty plates from the Australian drawings of Ferdinand Bauer (1769-1826) reproduced faithfully and in exact detail for the first time in 200 years. One folded sheet. North Fitzroy, Nokomis Press, [1991?]. rgpam741.0924/F527/b

 

Flinders, Matthew
Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. [Adelaide], Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, 1913. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the RGSA(SA Branch), vol. 14, 1912-13. Contains extracts from the Journal of Captain Flinders, commander of the schooner the "Cumberland", which arrived in the north-west of the Isle of France (Mauritius), the 28th Frimaire, in the year XII (1803). rgpam910.4/F622 also in Voyages to Australia etc., Reviews on Flinders, Péron etc (rg910.4/V975/Sp) and in the Society’s Proceedings

Flinders centenary [Issued by Pioneers Association South Australia. Adelaide, 1952]
In Pioneers Association of South Australia, [Records] vol. 3 [no. 71] rg994.2/P662/sp

 

Ingleton, Geoffrey C.
Matthew Flinders: navigator and chartmaker, foreword by HRH the Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh. Guildford, Surrey, England: Genesis Publications in association with Hedley Australia, 1986. xxiv, 467 p. : ill. ; 33cm. "Select bibliography (restricted to Matthew Flinders)": p. 445-449. Includes bibliographies and indexes.
rga994.02/F622c

 

Lewis, John
The annual address of the President [The Hon. John Lewis, M.L.C., J.P.] to the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, (Incorporated), delivered at the Annual Meeting on the 30th October, 1919. [Matthew Flinders] - 69pp (Proceedings of the RGSASA, 32nd session, 1918-19). rgpam994.23/L674

 

Mack, James Decker
Matthew Flinders 1774-1814. Melbourne, Nelson, 1966. rga920a F

 

Norst, Marlene J.
Ferdinand Bauer, the Australian natural history drawings. Melbourne, Lothian, 1989. rga741.092/B344.N/b

 

Palmer, Ernest W.
The Thistle Island catastrophe - was it a shark attack?
((Adelaide, The Sunday Mail, 1978))
First published in the Sunday Mail 21 May, 1978.
rgpam994.271/P173/c

 

Retter, Catharine
Letters to Ann. The love story of Matthew Flinders and Ann Chappelle. Pymble, Angus & Robertson, 1999. rga/910.92/R439

 

Russell, Roger Wolcott
Matthew Flinders: the ifs of history. [Bedford Park, University Relations Unit, Flinders University, 1979] 98pp. rga994/F622.R

 

Scott, Ernest
Life of Captain Matthew Flinders. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1914. rga920a F

 

Thynne, Robert
Matthew Flinders; or, how we have Australia; being the true story of Captain Matthew Flinders’ explorations and adventures. London, John Hogg, n.d. [1896]. rga920a F

 

Voyages to Australia etc
Reviews on Flinders, Péron etc [London, 1810-1862] 1 vol. (various paging)

Contents [1] A review of Flinders’ Voyage to Terra Australis, 1814. Quarterly Review October 1814, vol 12 no 23 ) [2] Review - Péron’s Voyage aux Terres Australes. 1810. (Quarterly Review August 1810 vol. 4 no 7 [8] Flinders, M. Captain Matthew Flinders R.N. [reprinted from Proceedings of RGSA (SA Branch) vol 14, 1912-13]. (The other items in this compilation do not refer to either Flinders or Baudin). rg910.4/V975/Sp

 

Whitington, L.A.
Matthew Flinders and Terra Australis. Address by L.A. Whitington. Adelaide, Pioneers Association of South Australia, [1951], 12p. In Pioneers Association of South Australia [Records] vol. 3 [no. 68]. rg994.2/P662/sp

Encounter 2002 - Public forum Wednesday 15 July 1998. Unpaged document [which] provides an overview of the Encounter 2002 celebration and incorporates

  • The Encounter 2002 Concept Plan
  • The chronologies of Flinders and Baudin (by A.J. Brown)
  • A reconstruction of the meeting between Flinders and Baudin (by A.J.Brown) uncat(27/3/00)

RELATED MATERIAL

Flinders, Matthew
Matthew Flinders’ narrative of Tom Thumb’s cruise to Canoe Rivulet. Foreword by Ann Flinders Petrie, edited by Keith Bowden. Brighton, Victoria, South Eastern Historical Association, 1985. rga919.44042/F622

Flinders, Matthew
Observations on the coasts of Van Diemen’s Land, on Bass’s strait and its Islands, and on part of the coasts of New South Wales; intended to accompany the charts of the late discoveries in those countries. London, 1801. Facsimile edition; Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1965. rga994T/c

Grant, James
The narrative of a voyage of discovery, performed in His Majesty’s Vessel The Lady Nelson, of sixty tons burthen, with sliding keels, in the years 1800, 1801, and 1802, to New South Wales. London, 1803. rg910.4/G762/b/Sp and facsimile edition: Adelaide, Libraries Board of SA, 1973 rga910.4/G762/b

(The Lady Nelson subsequently accompanied Flinders as a tender, sailing from Port Jackson, with the Investigator in July 1802. She was not at that point commanded by Grant, and nor is this stage of her career referred to in this account. However Grant’s Voyage did add to the discovery of the southern coast of Australia, in particular Capes Banks and Northumberland and Mounts Gambier and Schank and points further east to Cape Liptrap, the westerly limit of George Bass’s previous discoveries).

Lee, Stuart
Matthew Flinders and the discovery of Shoal Bay(Yamba). Yamba, Port of Yamba Historical Society, 1999. 81pp. rga994.203/L481/b


MAPS

Carte générale de la Terre Napoléon (à la Nouvelle Hollande) rédigée d’après les travaux éxécutés a bord de la corvette le Géographe et de la goelette le Casuarina par L. Freycinet.
Adelaide, A.Vaughan, govt. photolithographer [1919]. 1 map; 46x50cm.

(shows SA coastline from Cape Adieu to Cape Duquesne, with French place names, Paris prime meridian). Facsimile reproduction from 1808 edition; accompanies RGSA(SA)Branch Proceedings vol. 19, 1917-18. rgmap 830.6aj 1808

 

Chart of Terra Australis by Matthew Flinders. South Coast sheet II, 1802-3.
[Cape Arid to the Head of the Australian Bight].
London, Capt. Hurd, Hydrographer to the Admiralty, 1814.
1 map, 60x91cm.

Includes soundings, notes on currents and coastal vegetation and terrain. rgmap 806aj 1814


 

PERIODICALS

Only the Society’s Proceedings (later South Australian geographical journal) and its newsletter Geonews are referred to here. The Proceedings contain numerous references under Nicolas Baudin, Matthew Flinders, Louis Freycinet, François Péron and other members of the two expeditions, as well as Frenchman’s Rock and coast nomenclature. These are listed here, unless the reference is slight. Further searching of the Indexes to the Proceedings may be warranted. Other journals such as the journals of the Royal Australian Historical Society, and the Victorian Historical Society contain articles that may be of interest. Several references to periodicals are also noted elsewhere in this bibliography where they are considered significant contributions.

BAUDIN:

Vol. 10, 1907-8: A cruise in the S.S. ‘Governor Musgrave’ pp 123-135 of this are translated extracts from Vol 2 of Voyage de decouvertes aux Terres Australes by MM Péron and Freycinet, which relate to the exploration of the coast of Kangaroo Island.

Vol. 12,1910-11: pp26-35: Baudin’s account of the meeting with Flinders at Encounter Bay: from his Journal and from a letter sent from Port Jackson on 11 November 1802, to the Minister of Marine, Paris.

Vol. 12, 1910-11: pp16-17: Our coast nomenclature: Recommendations to the Government regarding errors in the French names on our coastline, and giving the name Fleurieu to the peninsula so named by the French expedition.

Vol. 14, 1912-13: pp 4-5: Eight French names have been fixed to the map of the coast, in accordance with the names given by the French discoverer.

Vol. 19, 1917-18: Annual address of the President (Hon. John Lewis) pp 71-77: The French expedition. P 78-80. Our coast nomenclature.

Vol. 47, 1945-46: pp 37-43: Nomenclature of the coastline of the South-East portion of South Australia [Flinders and Baudin Expedition’s names for coastal features].

Vol. 48, 1946-47: pp 42-48: Notes on the exploration of Murat Bay etc of the French or Denial Bay of Flinders.

Vol. 48, 1946-47: pp 9-14: Discovery of Port Adelaide [includes Flinders and Baudin reports on Kangaroo Island, Port Lincoln and the east side of Gulf St Vincent].

Vol. 50, 1948-49: pp 76-92: Addendum – some notes on the Baudin Expedition.

Vol. 64, 1962-63 pp 23-37: French sources for South Australian history [includes Flinders & Baudin].

Vol. 66, 1964-65: pp 17-24: The artists who sailed with Baudin and Flinders.

Vol. 97, 1998: pp 20-32: The captain and the convict maid: a chapter in the life of Nicolas Baudin.

FLINDERS:

Vol. 4, 1898/9-1900/1: pp 78-82: The Flinders centenary.

Vol. 5, 1901-02 pp45-68: The Flinders centenary

1. Discovery of Port Lincoln district

2. The Flinders Column, Mount Lofty

3. Encounter Bay. The meeting of Flinders and Baudin commorated at the

Bluff.

Vol. 9, 1906-07: pp 31-34: Australian pioneers following Flinders and Brown (broad overview of the work of Flinders and his botanist Robert Brown, and of the cruise of the S.S. Governor Musgrave in 1907).

Vol. 10, 1907-08: A cruise in the S.S. "Governor Musgrave" pp 110-112 extracts from Flinders Voyage to Terra Australis about Kangaroo Island, pp 121-2 trees on Kangaroo Island, pp 144-156: Memory Cove and Thistle Island, pp 164-171: Port Lincoln.

Vol. 12, 1910-11: pp 26-34: Flinders account of the meeting at Encounter Bay, 1802. Pp 36-41: General De Caen’s report on the detention of Flinders.

Vol. 14. 1912-13: p 48-74: including extracts from Flinders’ journal written on the Cumberland which arrived at Mauritius December 16, 1803. Also included is the examination of Flinders at Mauritius and statements by MM D’Epinay.

Vol. 19, 1917-18: Annual address of the President (Hon. John Lewis). Pp 20-70 covers Flinders expedition as far as Pt Lincoln. (The annual address was about the western portion of South Australia). Pp 83-91: Letters from R. Douglas, Naval Officer of South Australia 21/6/1858-attesting to accuracy of Flinders charts, also p.125 (The Great Australian Bight)

Vol. 20, 1918-19: Annual address of the President (Hon. John Lewis) pp 4-52: The South Australian coastline. This continues this account of the Flinders’ expedition, from Port Lincoln to the entry to Bass Strait.

Vol. 35, 1933-34; p 27-28: Flinders place names for islands near Cape Catastrophe.

Vol. 40, 1938-39: pp 83-85: Flinders Column, Mount Lofty.

Vol. 41, 1939-40, pp 3-5: Unveiling of Flinders’ memorial at Proper Bay, and re-enactment of the landing.

Vol. 47, 1945-46: pp 37-43: Nomenclature of the coastline of the South-East Portion of South Australia [Flinders’ and Baudin Expedition’s names for coastal features].

Vol. 48, 1946-47: pp 9-14: Discovery of Port Adelaide [includes Flinders’ and Baudin’s reports on Kangaroo Island, Port Lincoln and the east side of Gulf St Vincent].

Vol. 48, 1946-47, pp 42-48: Notes on the exploration of Murat Bay etc of the French or Denial Bay of Flinders.

Vol. 49, 1947-48, pp 52-57: Flinders’ memorials at Port Augusta, Robe, Whyalla, Rapid Bay, Pt Victoria, Edithburg, Ceduna, Elliston, Corny Point, Pt Wakefield, Tumby Bay, Streaky Bay, Cowell, Fowlers Bay, Wallaroo, American River.

Vol. 51, 1949-50, pp 61-2: Flinders’ memorial at Whyalla.

Vol. 52, 1950-51, p 64: Flinders’ memorials at Mt Hope, & Coffin Bay.

Vol. 56, 1954-55, p 76: Flinders memorial Partney Church, Lincolnshire.

Vol. 57, 1955-56, p65: Report of the unveiling of the memorial in Partney Church, Lincolnshire.

Vol. 60, 1958-59, pp 133-34: Flinders plaque, Mt Lofty and in London.

Vol. 64, 1962-63: pp 23-37: French sources for South Australian history [includes Flinders and Baudin].

Vol. 65, 1963-64: pp 53-67: Flinders and the French.

Vol. 66, 1964-65: pp17-24: The artists who sailed with Baudin and Flinders.

Vol. 67, 1965-6: pp 39-46: Matthew Flinders as an author.

Vol. 72, 1971: pp 26-27: Flinders’ description of the Islands of St Francis and St Peter [in The voyage of the ‘Gulden Zeepaard’] pp 19-32.

Vol. 76, 1975: pp 54-57: Flinders’ failure to find major river mouths [in Seasons for explorations – the second Daniel Brock memorial lecture, 1975].

PÉRON:

Vol. 10, 1907-08: A cruise in the S.S. "Governor Musgrave": pp 123-135 are translated extracts from vol. 2 of Voyage de decouvertes aux Terres Australes by MM. Péron and Freycinet, and relate to the coast of Kangaroo Island.

p171: favourable description of Port Lincoln (Port Champagny); p 93: Péron ignores Flinders’ place names, substituting his own.

Vol. 12, 1910-11: pp 27-31: Péron’s account of the meeting with Flinders at Encounter Bay.

Vol. 20, 1918-19: p 41: Flinders about François Péron and his claims to the discovery of the south coast of Australia.

Vol. 64: 1962-63: pp 23-37: French sources for South Australian history (pp 32-34 refer to Péron’s papers).

Vol. 66: 1964-65: pp 17-31: The artists who sailed with Baudin and Flinders [p 23: François Péron].

FRENCHMAN’S ROCK:

Vol. 8, 1904-05-1905-06: pp 55-58: Frenchman’s (Baudin’s) Rock, Kangaroo Island. Includes quotation from Baudin and Péron and details of the protective dome erected.

Vol. 10, 1907-08: A cruise in the S.S. "Governor Musgrave" pp 106-7 refer to Frenchman’s Rock, the building of the protective dome and contains a photograph of the inscription.

See also vol 19, 1917-18 p 80 for a photograph of the inscription.

Vol. 25, 1923-24: p118: Report by George Sutherland Commander of the brig Governor Macquarie, on finding the inscribed rock in January 1819.

 

 

Geonews, newsletter of the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia Inc.

vol. 4 no 1 March/April 1997 pb-13. In search of two mariners by A.J. Brown. Also see index to Geonews held in the Society.

 

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