Map Kangaroo Island South Australia Baudin Freycinet 1803

“Plan de L’Ile Decree A La Terre Napoleon: Nouvelle Hollande Par MML et H. Freycinet et Boullanger 1802 et 1803” original French name by Nicolas Baudin's cartographer Louis de Freycinet. After 1814 it was known officially as Kangaroo Island.

Archival quality Giclee Limited Edition to 350 of the map included in the atlas of the Account of Nicolas Baudin's Voyage of 1800-1804, Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes (‘Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands’, three volumes, Paris, 1807–1816) : Atlas Part I by Francois Peron, and Atlas Part 2 by Louis de Freycinet, in 1811.

Conservation Archival Limited Edition Giclee to 350. Issued with numbered certificate.

Same Size as original chart = 26.5cm x 16.5cm (10 1/2 inch x 6 1/2 inch)

French Voyage of Scientific Discovery-Nicolas Baudin 1800-1804

The French captain, Nicolas Baudin, unlike the English captain, Matthew Flinders, circumnavigated Kangaroo Island. While Baudin’s voyage returned with cartography and natural history in 1804, it was without Baudin. He died on Isle de France in 1803.

However, Matthew Flinders was delayed in his return to Britain by 6 years by French Governor-General of Isle de France (Mauritius), Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen. Flinders returned with his cartography in 1810, publishing “Terre Australis” in 1814.Tragically Flinders died the following day.

Along the South Australia coastline he included 49 French names, recognition of the Baudin Voyage’s prior discovery, many being on Kangaroo Island.

Comprehensive list of French names if issued stating who the man of science, mathematician, political identity, or past explorer was. It was a polite, yet forceful disagreement during the Encounter 2002 celebrations marking 200 years since Baudin and the English captain Matthew Flinders met 25 nautical miles off Port Eliot in Encounter Bay, South Australia, 8 April 1802. Anthony Brown, who wrote Ill-Starred Captains, put an argument that 45 names remained French, His book compares the two captains, Baudin who died on French Mauritius on the journey home, Flinders being handing in "his parole", remaining on the Island for 6 years. N. Bloomfield, French Studies at the University of Western Australia, is adamant that 49 names remained French and these names are her research that she toured Australia with, "Western Australia/South Australia/Tasmania French?"