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LE GEOGRAPHE
Michel Larochec 1990
Australian National Maritime Museum
Sydney, Australia
This model at a scale of 1:48 represents the French corvette LE GEOGRAPHE. Nicolas Baudin sailed from France in command of LE GEOGRAPHE and LE NATURALISTE on a scientific expedition to Australia in October 1800. In the course of three years he carried out surveys of Australia's coast and collected a wide variety of natural history specimens. The expedition was much handicapped by constant political tensions and Baudin died of tuberculosis while returning to France in 1803. As a result he was unable to defend his reputation and his expedition results were largely overshadowed in the turmoil of Napoleon's planned invasion of England.
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- Title: LE GEOGRAPHE
- Creator: Michel Laroche
- Date: c 1990
- Location: Tarana
- Type: Ship model
- Significance: This model represents the French exploration ship LE GEOGRAPHE and highlights its role surveying Australia's coast under Nicolas Baudin. This expedition resulted in the earliest publication of a complete chart of Australia's coastline.
- See institution's online collections: http://www.anmm.gov.au/collections
- Medium: Bone, brass and wood.
- Dimensions: 525 x 635 mm, 5.2 kg
- Credit line: ANMM Collection
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