Gateway to the Freycinet
By now the rising sun was beginning make a real difference to the colour. East is left in this picture and although the sun had not quite come over the horizon its golden warming glow is beginning to be felt.
I should tell you a little about Louis-Claude Desaulses de Freycinet (1779–1842), after whom this peninsula is named. He was a renowned French cartographer/surveyor who together with his compatriot, the explorer and sea captain Nicolas Thomas Baudin (1754-1803), circumnavigated the earth and in 1811 produced the most comprehensive map of the Australian coastline to that point.
Baudin had two ships, Le Géographe and Le Naturaliste and took with him a number of scientists, including the naturalist François Péron, and of course the cartographer-surveyor Freycinet.
Both these men's lives are one of dedication to science and the furtherance of knowledge. Baudin is remembered here by Mount Baudin, the second from the left in my picture just below the triangular Mount Dove.
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Gateway to the Freycinet
By now the rising sun was beginning make a real difference to the colour. East is left in this picture and although the sun had not quite come over the horizon its golden warming glow is beginning to be felt.
I should tell you a little about Louis-Claude Desaulses de Freycinet (1779–1842), after whom this peninsula is named. He was a renowned French cartographer/surveyor who together with his compatriot, the explorer and sea captain Nicolas Thomas Baudin (1754-1803), circumnavigated the earth and in 1811 produced the most comprehensive map of the Australian coastline to that point.
Baudin had two ships, Le Géographe and Le Naturaliste and took with him a number of scientists, including the naturalist François Péron, and of course the cartographer-surveyor Freycinet.
Both these men's lives are one of dedication to science and the furtherance of knowledge. Baudin is remembered here by Mount Baudin, the second from the left in my picture just below the triangular Mount Dove.
adb.anu.edu.au/biography/freycinet-louisclaude-desaulses-...