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... Nicolas Baudin was leaving Geographe Bay in 1801 one of the sailors , Vasse by name , was thought to have been drowned , and Baudin named the river after him . According to later reports , however , Vasse may have struggled ashore , and ...
... Nicolas Baudin was leaving Geographe Bay in 1801 one of the sailors , Vasse by name , was thought to have been drowned , and Baudin named the river after him . According to later reports , however , Vasse may have struggled ashore , and ...
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... Nicolas Baudin was prepared to meet Flinders peacefully . Le Geographe had left France nine months earlier , equipped for scientific and exploratory work , and with the French Government's orders to investigate the possibility of French ...
... Nicolas Baudin was prepared to meet Flinders peacefully . Le Geographe had left France nine months earlier , equipped for scientific and exploratory work , and with the French Government's orders to investigate the possibility of French ...
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... Nicolas Baudin after his vessel which made a landfall here in 1801 when the French scientific expedition arrived on Le Naturaliste and Le Geographe . Naturi SA Aboriginal . Sandy soil . Navarre V After the European kingdom . Aboriginal ...
... Nicolas Baudin after his vessel which made a landfall here in 1801 when the French scientific expedition arrived on Le Naturaliste and Le Geographe . Naturi SA Aboriginal . Sandy soil . Navarre V After the European kingdom . Aboriginal ...
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Aboriginal name Aboriginal word Adelaide Bass Bathurst birthplace Brisbane called Camp Captain Cook coast Colonial command corruption Cove Creek d'Entrecasteaux Dalrymple Discovered and named discovery district Duke Duyfken E. J. Eyre Earl early settler Ernest Giles expedition explorer Fitzroy George gold Goulburn Governor Macquarie Harbour Henry Hill Island Q James John Oxley Kangaroo known Lady Nelson Lake later Leichhardt Lieut Lieut-Governor Lord Matthew Flinders McDouall Stuart meaning Moreton Mount NSW Mount Q Murray River name was given Named by Captain Named by Flinders Named by Governor Nicolas Baudin NSW Aboriginal NSW Named NT Named origin P. P. King Peak Peninsula Plains probably Q Aboriginal Q Discovered Queensland River NSW River Q Named river was discovered rock Scotland settlement South Australia South Wales station Strait survey surveyor Surveyor-General Swamp Sydney T. L. Mitchell Tasman Tasmania Thomas town township tree vessel Victoria water hole Western Australia William wrote