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1801–1803

Geographe (Thomas Nicholas Baudin and Louis de Freycinet)

From 1801 to 1802, the Geographe, under the command of Thomas Nicholas Baudin, charted the coastline of western Australia from Geographe Bay to the Bonaparte Archipelago, before surveying south-eastern Tasmania and the continent's south coast, from Bass Strait to Cape Leeuwin. Louis de Freycinet joined the Baudin expedition as cartographer-surveyor, and in the schooner Casuarina carried out inshore survey work, particularly on the southern Australian coastline.

As Baudin was sailing west along Australia's southern flank, English navigator Matthew Flinders, aboard the Investigator, was sailing east on his circumnavigation of the continent. The Geographe and the Investigator met in Encounter Bay, in South Australia.