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Nuyts Archipelago2 May 1802 - 8 May 1802

Baudin clashes with his officers, his crew is ravaged by scurvy and strong winds prevent him rounding the islands of St Peter and St Francis. He writes of the islands, ‘I am not at all surprised that they have been given the names of two saints who had taken vows of poverty’. They turn east to find drinking water, firewood and rest in Van Diemen’s Land and then Port Jackson.

Peron

  • Noisy Scrub-bird or Rufous bristlebird
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—79041

  • Volute—Aulicina nivosa
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—72062

  • Unidentified shrimp
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—73147R

  • Sea stars—Patiriella gunnii
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—74003

  • Mosaic sea star—Plectaster decanus
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—74053

  • Potbelly seahorse—Hippocampus bleekeri
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—76745

  • Snapper—Chrysophrys auratus
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—76904

  • Eight frogs observed during travel to the Southern Lands.
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Museum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—77002