INDEX

• Introduction
• Maps
• Significant Places in Australia's Maritime History
• Naming Australia
• Naming Australia's Coastal Features

WHO DID DISCOVER AUSTRALIA?

• The Phoenecians & Egyptians
• The Greeks & Romans
• The Chinese
• The Muslims
• The Portuguese
• The Dutch
• The British
• The French

COLONIAL EXPLORATION

• Index
• The French
• The British
• Other
• Inland explorers

The Discovery of Australia: Naming Australia's Coastline

Cape Leveque (right)
6.8.1801. Baudin. Named after Pierre Leveque (1746-1814), hydrographer of survey vessel Geographe, who drew the expedition's charts.

Thomas Bay
Named by E.T. Hooley in 1866, who Thomas was is not known.

Chili Head

Lombardina Pt
Believed to be of Aboriginal origin, derived or partly made up from Baada, the name of the local Aboriginal peoples.

Lord Mayor Shoal

Packer Isld

Cape Borda
6.8.1801. Baudin. Named after Jean Charles de Borda (1733-1799). French mathematician and astronomer, born at St. Malo 0n 17.07., entered the army at age of twenty, devoting his leisure to mathematics. He became a member of the Academy of Sciences in 1723 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1728. In 1736, he led the expedition for the measurement of the length of a degree of the meridian to Lapland. On his return, he was elected member of almost all the learned societies of Europe. In 1742, he became Director of the French Academy of Sciences. He revisited Berlin, at the invitation of Frederick II of Prussia in 1744 and became the President of the Royal Academy of Sciences in 1746. After retirement in the South of France, he died in Basel on 27.07. He was rather querulous as was demonstrated by his controversies with Voltaire.

Point Coulomb
5.8.1801, Baudin. Named after Charles Augustin Coulomb, a French natural philosopher and physicist. Coulomb stated the inverse square law of magnetism in 1784. He founded the mathematical theory of electric and magnetic action. The Coulomb, the unit of quantity of electricity, was named after him. It is defined as the amount of electricity carried by a current of one ampere flowing for one second.

Pender Bay
24.1.1838. Stokes. Named after William Pender, Hobart shipwright, who in 1829 built the tops'l schooner Enterprize which brought the first settlers to Melbourne.

Keith Cove
Named after Keith Stirling, a naturalist and the son of Sir Lancelot Stirling.

Bell Point

Perpendicular Head
24.1.1838. 1838. Stokes. Descriptive.

Emeriau Pt
5.8.1801, Baudin. Named after Maurice Julien Comte Emeriau (1762-1845), French admiral.

Tappers Inlet

North Head
24.1.1838. Stokes. Descriptive.

Cliff Pt
24.1.1838. Stokes. Descriptive.

Baleine Bank
5.8.1801, Baudin. French word for 'whale' which were seen here.

Beagle Bay
24.1.1838. Stokes. Named after expedition vessel, HMS Beagle, anchored here.

Lacepede Islands / Lacepede Channel
5.8.1801. Baudin. Named after Bernard Germaine Etienne de la Ville, Comte de Lacepede (1756-1825), President of the French senate. His nephew was a naturalist on the expedition and contributed numerous illustrations of flora and fauna. Lacepede Senior was also a naturalist who described many of Australia's fish species between 1798 and 1804, mostly during the time of Baudin's expedition.

Weston Patch
January 1838. Stokes.

Robber Rocks
January 1838. Stokes.

West Isld
January 1838. Stokes. Descriptive.

Middle Isld
January 1838. Stokes. Descriptive.

Sandy Isld
January 1838. Stokes. Descriptive.

East Isld
January 1838. Stokes. Descriptive.

Surprise Shoal

Sandy Pt
January 1838. Stokes. Descriptive.

Camp Cove
January 1838. Stokes. Expedition camped here.

Eclipse Shoal
January 1838. Stokes.

Cape Bertholet (right)
4.8.1801. Baudin. Named after Charles Louis Bertholet (1748-1822), French chemist.

Red Bluff
January 1838. Stokes. Descriptive.

Baskerville Shoal
23.8.1821. King. Named after Percival Baskerville, midshipman, Bathurst.

Panton Shoal
23.8.1821. King. Named after Lord Panton of Panton Hall, Lincolnshire, a British nobleman.

Carnot Bay
4.8.1801. Baudin. Named after Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot (right) (1753-1823), Engineer in Army Corps, Deputy to Convention, member of the Committee of Public Safety, military strategist, one of Directors, count under Napoleon. Before the Revolution, Carnot had been jailed for a short time after he tried to elope with Ursule de Boillet, an aristocrat. Carnot had once employed a young lawyer in his home province of Artois to help a servant of his receive a considerable inheritance....the name of that lawyer was Robespierre. In his free time, Carnot published works on mathmetics and the fortification theory which is still named after him. After his fall from power in the Fructidor coup, he retired to a home life devoted to his two sons....one would become his biographer and the other a scientist. Although not overly fond of Napoleon,who had appointed him War Minister in 1800 only to not get along with him and fire him (Carnot was to vote against the Consulate and the Empire, costing him dearly) he supported him after the Emperor came back from exile in 1814 and thus was banished as a regicide under Louis XVIII. He died in exile. His grandson was to become president of the French Republic. He is the only member of the Committee of Public Safety whose memory is widely cherished throughout France today.

James Price Pt / James Price Patches
23.8.1821. King. Named after James Price, crew member, Lady Nelson.

Grey Shoal
January 1838. Stokes. Named after expedition member and explorer, Sir George Grey.

Cape Boileau
4.8.1801. Baudin. Named after Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux (1631-1699), French poet and author., commonly referred to as Boileau (November 1, 1636 - March 13, 1711) was a French poet and critic. He was born in the rue de Jerusalem, in Paris. He was the fifteenth child of Gilles Boileau, a clerk in the parlement. Two of his brothers attained some distinction: Gilles Boileau (1631-1669), the author of a translation of Epictetus; and Jacques Boileau, who became a canon of the Sainte-Chapelle, and made valuable contributions to church history. His mother died when he was two years old; and Nicolas Boileau, who had a delicate constitution, seems to have suffered something from want of care.

Narlinga Shoal
Aboriginal name for the locality.

Willie Cape

Low Pt
August 1821. King. Descriptive. Original Nadir Point, which means low.

Cable Beach (right)
Broome's cable telegraph station was located here.

Gantheaume Pt / Gantheaume Bay
24.7.1801. Baudin. Named after Comte de Gantheaume (1755-1818), French Admiral, succeeded in slipping out of Brest on 13.01.1802 with a squadron of seven sail of the line when a gale had driven the British blockading forces off the coast. He entered the Mediterranean, but never managed to land in Egypt.

Pearl Shoals
January 1838. Stokes. Pearl divers were seen at work here.

Entrance Pt
January 1838. Stokes. Descriptive of its location.

Beacon Head

Roebuck Bay
26.8.1821. King. Named after William Dampier's vessel, Roebuck. In September 1700, Dampier landed in the area to replenish his water supplies and to capture an Aborigine. The town of Broome was later built nearby.

Bush Pt
January 1838. Stokes. Descriptive.

Sandy Pt
January 1838. Stokes. Descriptive.

Cape Villaret
4.8.1801. Baudin. Named after Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse (1750-181). French naval officer, born in Auch Gers in 2. He early entered the life-guards, but in 1766 joined the navy as midshipman, and served in the West Indies and South America. He was promoted post-captain, was in Santo Domingo at the opening of the troubles of 1790, and aided in quieting the disturbance, taking part in the following year in the second expedition to Santo Domingo, after which he commanded the station of the Antilles. He was made rear-admiral in September, 1793, and sailed from Brest, 16 May, 1794, to escort a convoy of wheat-ships from the United States under Admiral Vanstabel. On 28 and 29 May and 1 June he engaged Admiral Howe's fleet, and, although both squadrons suffered heavily, the convoy passed safely and anchored at Brest, thus saving France from famine. In 1801 he was appointed commander-in-chief of the naval forces for Santo Domingo, and arriving, 6 February, 1802, off Cape Francais, succeeded, by well-concerted measures, in extinguishing the conflagration that had been begun by the retreating rebels. On 3 April, 1802, he was appointed governor-general of Martinique and St. Lucia, which post he retained with great efficiency for seven years. After the battle of Trafalgar, in 1805, his communications with France were severed, but he held the English invaders at bay till 1809, when, after sustaining a terrible bombardment in Fort Bourbon, he was compelled to sign an honorable capitulation. In 1811 he was appointed governor-general of Venice, where he died.

Cape Gourdon / Gourdon Bay
4.8.1801. Baudin. Named after an ancient perched village of the French Rivierra which sits on the edge of a rocky spur that juts out about 500m directly above the Loup river where the Gorges du Loup comes out at the Pont-du-Loup village. There are some great views of Gourdon, and a few other lovely sites of the French Riviera, in Hitchcock's 1955 "To Catch a Thief" with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly.

Cape Latouche Treville
4.8.1801. Baudin. Named after Louis René Madeleine La Vassor de Latouche-Treville (1745-1804), an admiral under Napoleon, he was sent in December 1792 to cow the Bourbon rulers of Naples. In Jult 1804 he was commanding at Toulon, he was ordered by Napoleon, when a storm drove Nelson away, to go to sea to pick up the French ship in Cadiz, etc. His ill-advised boasting provoked Nelson into a scolding mood, although, in general, he was always serene and at his best in this last stage of his life in October 1805 in Trafalgar Bay.

Lagrange Bay
4.8.1801. Baudin. Named after Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736-1813). French mathematician, born at Turin, after reading a tract by Halley, became an enthusiast for the analytical method and soon reached the level of the greatest of his contemporaries like Leonhard Euler with whom he began a correspondence at the age of nineteen. In 1754 he was appointed professor of geometry in the royal school of artillery. His further progress cannot be reported here. He was greatly admired by Napoleon. He died on 08.04. after a final interview with his friend mathematicians.

Cape Bossut / False Cape Bossut
4.8.1801. Baudin. Named after Jacques Benigne Bosseut (1627-1704), French writer, prelate, and lecturer who used his inflence at the French royal court to defend freedom of religion and thoughs, particularly the residents of the Abbey of Port-Royal which were persecuted by the Jesuits. He also inspired the Declaration on Gallican Freedom of 1682. As a Bishop, he is listed in the Apostolic Succession of the Liberal Catholic Church.

Admiral Bay

Cape Duhamel
4.8.1801. Baudin. Named after enri Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782). French botanist and engineer, born at Paris, he spent most of his life in experiments on plant physiology.

Cape Frazier
August 1821. King. Named after John Frazier, Private 46th Regiment and crew member.

Cape Jaubert
4.8.1801. Baudin. Named after Pierre Amédée Émilien Probe Jaubert (right) (1779-1842). French orientalist, born at Aix in Provence on 03.06., acted as Napoleon's interpreter in Egypt in 1798-99 and held various government appointments thereafter around the Mediterranean and in Asia Minor.

Desault Bay
4.8.1801. Baudin. Named after Pierre Joseph DeSault (1738? - 1795), Surgeon and anatomist. His parents were poor and he received his education from the Jesuits. He became an assistant to the barber-surgeon of his native village and then took a similar post at the military hospital of Belfort. In 1782 he became chief surgeon to the Charity Hospital and not long after surgeon to the Hôtel-Dieu. He was now looked upon as the most prominent surgeon in Paris and founded a school of clinical surgery which attracted students from all sides. In 1793 he was imprisoned by the revolutionary authorities but after three days was liberated through the influence of his patients. He died from pneumonia, the result of exposure while attending the Dauphin in the Temple. He wrote a treatise on surgical operations in three volumes; a treatise on fractures and luxations, edited by Xavier Bichat, was published after his death and was translated into English in 1805 going through three American editions. Desault's contributions to surgery are contained in the "Journal de Chirurgie" published by himself and pupils.

Cape Missiessy
4.8.1801. Baudin. Named after Edouard Thomas Burgues Comte de Missiessy (1754-1832), French naval officer. HHe entered the navy in 1769, became a lieutenant in 1778, and served during the whole of the war of American independence. He became rear-admiral in 1794, and in 1805 was given the command of the squadron that assembled at Rochefort. He took a major role in the great expedition of Napoleon against the English fleet. Napoleon in his "Memorial" has bitterly reproached Missiessy for this breach of faith, although in 1809 he promoted him to vice-admiral. Missiessy defended Antwerp in 1814, and in the same year was maritime governor of Toulon. He wrote technical works on the navy, and "Ma justification: Pourquoi je n'ai pas attendu Villeneuve aux Antilles" (Paris, 1828).

Eighty Mile Beach
January 1838. Stokes. Descriptive.

Solitary Isld
30.7.1801. Baudin. Its position.

Cape Keraudren
30.7.1801. Baudin. Named after Pierre Francois Keraudren (1769-1858), Medical Inspector of the French Navy. He authored numerous works on the diseases of seamen.

Poissanier Point
28.7.1801. Baudin. Named after Pierre Poissanier (11720-98), physicist and chemist who helped explorer Bougainville get a distiller for use at sea.

Bedout Isld
23.7.1801. Baudin. Named after Rear-Admiral Jacques Bedout, a hero of the French Navy and commander of the man-o-war, Tyger - "in honour of the brave officer of that name who sustained . . one of the most glorious combats which the French navy can boast".

Breaker Inlet
January 1838. Stokes. Descriptive.

Larrey Pt
23.7.1801. Baudin. Named after Dominique-Jean Larrey (1766-1842) The French Army's Surgeon General. Exhibiting an unusual blend of initiative and courage he entered the field of battle, often amputating and dressing wounds under enemy fire. He then evolved a system of flying ambulances to evacuate casualties from the battlefield during Napoleon's campaigns, thus saving many lives. It is said that he ignored rank, insisting on treating the severely wounded first. He developed extensive practical experience and ability in military surgery through his involvement in every Napoleonic campaign, including the battles of Moscow, Austerlitz and Waterloo. Not only was Larrey appointed Surgeon-in-Chief to the Grande Armée, but he was also Surgeon to the Imperial Guard and to Napoleon himself. Napoleon created him Baron Larrey and stipulated in his will: "To the Baron Larrey, I leave a sum of one hundred thousand francs. He is the worthiest man I ever met."

North Turtle Isld / Little Turtle Isld
Probably because green turtles were see here.

Cooke Pt

Mangrove Harbour.
April 1863. Capt. Peter Hedland anchored his cutter Mystery in this huge natural harbour. Captain Hedland was searching for a suitable place to land stock being carried by the barque Tien Tsin for the De Grey station. However due to severe tides and lack of fresh water Hedland returned south to a smaller harbour which became known as Tien Tsin and was later renamed Cossack. Three years later Mangrove Harbour was investigated as a possible townsite and port, and by the 1870s, Port Hedland as it became known grew into a stopover point for pearling luggers. The name of the town honours Capt. Peter Hedland, master of the cutter Mystery, who discovered the entrance to the harbour in 1863.

Finucane Bay
Named after Paterson Finucane who arrived in 1884 from London and went to Cossack the same year. He was acting first class police constable at Roebourne in 1886, a teamster at Millstream 1887-88 and is listed in 1895 as the Bailiff at Marble Bar. He was later at Port Hedland.

Cape Thouin
23.7.1801. Baudin. Named after Andre Thouin (1747-1824), French botanist in charge of the Gardens of Paris.

Geographe Shoals
23.7.1801. Baudin. Named after expedition vessel, Geographe.

Beagle Reef
January 1838. Stokes. expedition vessel, HMS Beagle.

Cape Cossigny
23.7.1801. Baudin. Named after David Charpentier de Cossigny, French Governor General of Mauritius, 15 Aug 1790 - 17 Jun 1792. The Cossigny family were closely associated with the development of Ile de France (Mauritius) as a fortified French base in the Indian Ocean.

Ronsard Isld
23.7.1801. Baudin. Named after Francois Melchesadek Ronsard, engineer, of the expedition vessel Naturaliste, who drew many of the charts used in the published version of the Peron's journal.

Sable Isld
23.7.1801. Baudin. Sable is French for sandy.

Forestier Islds
27.7.1801. Baudin. Named after Henry Vendean Forestier (1755-1806), French Minister for the Navy and Administration and General who fought with Napoleon.

Depuch Isld
27.7.1801. Baudin. Named after Louis Depuch, mineralogist, of survey vessel Géographe.

Picard Isld
27.7.1801. Baudin. Named after Jean Picard (1620-1682), French astronomer and cartographer. Picard devised a micrometer to measure the diameters of celestial objects such as the Sun, Moon and planets. Picard greatly increased the accuracy of measurements of the Earth, using Snell's method of triangulation. He measured the length of the arc of the meridian; the measurements appear in Mesure de la Terre (1671). This data was used by Newton in his gravitational theory. Picard was one of the first to apply scientific methods to the making of maps. He produced a map of the Paris region, then went on to join a project to map France.

Port Walcott
Walter Padbury, the first settler in the region, charted the harbour in 1863 and named it Tien Tsin after the barque which had brought him to the area. In the early days the settlement that developed on its shore has been known as Port Walcott, North District, The Landing and Cossack. It is now a ghost town. the name recalls Capt. Permberton Walcott, a seafarer whose vessels plied the western shores of Australia in the 1860s.

Point Samson
1863. Padbury. Named after Michael Samson, a member of a prominent Fremantle family. The point was named during Walter Padbury's expedition to Nicol Bay in 1863. Mr Samson was the second officer of their ship, the "Tien Tsin". The point was misspelled on maps as Sampson, and this error persisted for many years, including being used when the townsite was gazetted in 1909. The error was brought to the governments attention by Michael samson's widow in 1918, and both the point and the townsite were corrected to Point Samson in April 1918.

Cape Lambert
5.3.1818. King. Named after Aylmer Bourke Lambert, a personl friend of King.

Rowley Shoals
16.3.1818. King. Named after abel seaman Rowler, of survey vessel HMS Mermaid, who first sighted them.

Nickol Bay
4.3.1818. King. Named after G and W Nikol, publishers to the Royal Navy.

Sloping Pt
1.3.1818. King. Descriptive.

Dampier Archipelago
18.2.1818. King. Named after William Dampier (right) (1652-1715). English buccaneer, navigator and hydrographer, born at East Coke, Sommersetshire. An early orphan, he was placed with the master of a ship at Weymouth in which he made a voyage to Newfoundland. On his return, he sailed to Bantam in the East Indies. In 1674, he worked briefly in Jamaica and familiarized himself with all the ports and bays of the island. In 1679, he joined a party of buccaneers with whom he crossed the Isthmus of Darien. He joined a Captain Swan, sailing across the Pacific during 1686. Short of food, the crew decided to eat the lusty and fleshy Swan. After months of debauchery in the Philippines, the majority of the crew with Dampier left Swan and thirty-six other crew members in Mindanao and cruised for months along the China Coast, to the Spice Islands and New Holland. In 1688, they were off Sumatra and the Nicobars. In August of that year, Dampier sailed part of the coast of New Holland, entering and naming Shark Bay (he named it Shark's Bay).
In 1699, the English Admiralty placed him in command of an expedition aboard Roebuck, especially designed for discovery in and around Australia. returning to and anchoring in Shark's Bay, he began a careful exploration of the neighbouring shorelands, but found no good harbour or estuary, no fresh water or provisions. In September, he left for Timor, thence to New Guinea and discovered New Britain. He continued seafaring while publishing his accounts in 1697, 1699, 1703 and 1707. He died in March in St. Stepohen'sParish, Coleman Street, London.

Cygnet Sound
6.8.1688. Dampier. Named after expedition vessel Cygnet anchored here.

Delambre Isld
28.7.1801. Baudin. Named after Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749-1822), head Astronomer in Paris. In 1771, he became tutor to the son of M. d'Assy, receiver-general of finances who installed for him in 1788 an observatory. After many observations, he published Tables of Uranus and as a consequence was elected a member of the academy of sciences. He later on became professor of astronomy at the Collège de France.

Bezout Isld
28.7.1801. Baudin. Named after Etienne Bézout (1730-1783), mathematician who specifically applied the use of mathematics at sea. Bézout is famed for his school texbooks. He also did important work on the use of determinants in solving equations, where he generalised Cramer's Rule. Bézout was elected to the Académie des Sciences in 1758.

Dixon Isld
January 1838. Stokes. Named after Robert Dixon, Assistant Surveyor to the Surveyor-General Major Thomas Mitchell.

Dolphin Isld
January 1838. Stokes. Dolphins seen here.

Hauy Isld
28.7.1801. Baudin. Named after René Just Haüy (1743-1822). French mineralogist, born at St. Just, in the department of Oise on 28.02., educated at the colleges of Navarre and Lemoine, became a teacher at the latter and turned to natural history. He dropped a friend's specimen of calcareous spar and used the fragments for experiments which resulted in the statement of the law of crystallization, named after him, and his treatise Traité de mineéralogie.

Legendre Isld
28.7.1801. Baudin. Named after Adrien Marie Legendre (1752-1833). French mathematician and geometrist, born at Paris (or Toulouse?), educated at the Collège Mazarin in Paris, contributed IN 1774 sections to Abbé Marie's Traité de mêcanique. Soon afterwards he became professor of mathematics in the École Normale. During the revolution he was one of the three members of the council established to introduce the decimal system. He was also a member of the commission appointed to determine the length of the metre.

Cape Brugieres
28.7.1801. Baudin. Named after Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugieres, Baron de Barante (1782-1866), French statesman, historian, politican writer, a liberal representative under Bourbon restoration. he was just beginning to make a name for himself when Baudin's expedition was being launched.

Angel Isld

Malus Isld
July 1801. Baudin. Recalls Etienne Louis Malus (1775-1812), physicist and academician noted for his study of optics.

West Lewis Isld / East Lewis Isld

Intercourse Isld
18.2.1818. King. Communication was made with the local Aborigines.

Rosemary Isld
22.8.1699. Dampier. A plant resembling Rosemary found here.

Goodwin Isld

Enderby Isld
24.2.1818. King. Named after Samuel Enderbey, a personal friend of King and one of New Zealand's first European settlers.

Eaglehawk Isld
Possibly because eaglehawks were seen here.

South West Reef
18.2.1818. King. descriptive.

Gidley Isld
1.3.1818. King. Named after King's father, Philip Gidley King.

Courteney Isld
1.3.1818. King. Named after a personal friend of King.

Mermaid Strait
28.2.1818. King. Named after the expedition cutter, HMS Mermaid.

Regnard Bay / North East Regnard Isld
26.8.1801. Baudin. Named after Jean François Regnard (1655-1709), French comic dramatist. He traveled widely in Europe; captured by Barbary pirates, he was held in slavery (1678-79) until ransomed. His best-known comedies, characterized by verve and mocking gaiety, are Le Joueur [the gamester] (1696), a comedy of character; Les Folies amoureuses [lovers' madnesses] (1704); Les Ménechmes (1705), after Plautus; and Le Légataire universel (1708; tr. The Sole Heir, 1912).

Cape Preston
18.2.1818. King. Named after Richard Preston, a personal friend of King.

Petersen Rock

McLennan Rock
Named after Donald McLennan, the publican of Carnarvon whose gravestone dated 4th February 1876 still exists on Sweers Island.

The Man in the Boat Isld

Steamboat Isld

Mangrove Isld

Fortescue Road / Fortescue Rocks / Fortescue Isld
Name taken from the nearby Fortescue River, which in turn was named by Frank Thomas Gregory, 6.6.1861, after Lord Fortescue, Undersecretary of State for the Colonies, a descendant of Lord Phillip "Thunderhead" Fortescue, the hero of the Battle of Romney (1666).

Mardie Rock / Mardi Isld

Stewart Rocks / Stewart Isld

Sholl Isld

Round Isld
18.2.1818. King. Decriptive.

Ling Isld

Middle Isld
18.2.1818. King. Descriptive.

Angle Isld

Passage Isld
located in the South Passage.

Solitary Isld
Descriptive of its location.

South Passage Isld
Descriptive.

North Sandy Isld
Descriptive.

Pup Isld
January 1838. Stokes. A small island, presumably a play on words, it being smaller than nearby Beagle Island, a beagle being a type of dog.

Beagle Isld
January 1838. Stokes. Named after the expedition vessel, HMS Beagle, anchored here.

Lowendal Isld
26.8.1801. Baudin. Named after Maréchal de Lowendal Jean-Baptiste II Lemoyne (1704-1778), French Marshal.

Cape Malouet
26.8.1801. Baudin. Named after Baron Pierre Victor Malouet (right), (1740-1814). French publicist and politician, born at Riom (Puy-de-Dôme) on 13.02., entered civil service and was employed in Lisbon, San Domingo, and eventually in France as commissary of the marine. After the revolution, he emigrated to England in September 1792, but shortly afterwards sought in vain permission to return to assist in the defence of Louis XVI.

Double Isld
January 1838. Stokes. Descriptive.

Latitude Pt

Cape Poivre / Poivre Reef
23.7.1801. Baudin. Named after Pierre Poivre (1719-1786), French navigator who first established France's trade with the Far east. As intendant of Île de France (Mauritius) he introduced spice plantations to the Seychelles.

Pasco Isld
January 1838. Stokes. Named after Crawford Pasco who served in HMS Beagle under John Lort Stokes. Pasco was a son of Lieutenant Pasco, Nelson's signal officer in HMS Victory at Trafalgar.

Montebello Islands
24.8.1801. Baudin. Named after Jean Lannes 91769-1809), Duke of Monte Bello, Marshall of France. The island was used for nuclear testing in the 1950s. "Hurricane" was tested successfully at the Monte Bello Islands in 1952 (right).

North West Isld
24.8.1801. Baudin. Descriptive of its position in the group.

Trimouille Isld
24.8.1801. Baudin. Named after Louis de La Trémoille or La Trimouille (1460-1525), French general. He commanded the army that attempted to secure Brittany for the French crown after the death (1488) of Duke Francis II. He distinguished himself in the Italian Wars, notably at Fornovo (1495), Marignano (1515), and Pavia (1525).

Hermite Isld
23.7.1801. Baudin. Named after Baron Jean Marthe Adrien L'Hermite (1766-1827), French admiral.

Trial Rocks
Wreck of the British merchantman Trial found here.

Alpha Island
23.7.1801. Baudin. The first island in the group sighted by the expedition.

Barrow Isld (right)
30.5.1818. King. Named after John Barrow, Secretary to the Admiralty. Sir John Barrow (1764-1848). English statesman, born in Dragley Beck in the parish of Ulverstom in Lancashire, started in life as superintending clerk of an iron foundry at Liverpool and afterwards taught mathematics at a school in Greenwich. In 1797, he accompanied Lord Macartney, as private secretary, in his important and delicate mission to settle the government of the newly acquired colony of the Cape of Good Hope. He was entrusted with the task of reconciling the Boers and Kaffirs and of reporting on the country in the interior. He returned to England in 1804, was appointed by Lord Melville second secretary to the admiralty, a post which h held for forty years. He was a fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1822 received the degree of LL.D., from Edinburgh University. A baroncy was conferred on him by Sir Robert Peel in 1835. He retired from public life in 1845 and devoted himself to writing a history of the modern Arctic voyages of discovery (1846), of which he was a great promoter, as well as his autobiography, published in 1847. He died suddenly on 23.11. Nicholas Baudin sighted the island in 1803, but did not name it, mistakenly believing it to be part of mainland Australia.

Mary Anne Passage / Mary Anne Group
recalles Mary Anne Broome, wife of WA Governor, Sir Frederick Napier Broome (1883-89).

Large Isld
January 1838. Stokes. Descriptive.

East Isld
January 1838. Stokes. Descriptive of its location.

West Isld
January 1838. Stokes. Descriptive of its location.

Low Isld
January 1838. Stokes. Descriptive.

False Isld
January 1838. Stokes. Descriptive of its location.

Lightfoot Reef
Named after Wing Commander L J Lightfoot, Commanding Officer No. 14 Squadron, Pearce, a squadron involved in the search for HMAS Sydney that was beieved lost in the vicinity.

Weld Isld
Named after Frederick Aloysius Weld, Governor of WA, 1869 - 1875, Governor of Tasmania, 1875-1880. Governor Weld had previously served as Premier of New Zealand where he had been influential in that colony achieving representative government. He established the railways and installed the telegraph. During his Governorship of WA he supported the introduction of a new partly-elected Legislative Council in 1870.

Little Rocky Isld
January 1838. Stokes. Descriptive.

Mangrove Isld
January 1838. Stokes. Descriptive of its vegetation.

North Isld
January 1838. Stokes. Descriptive of its location.

Middle Isld
January 1838. Stokes. Descriptive of its location.

South Isld
January 1838. Stokes. Descriptive of its location.

Taunton Reef
January 1838. Stokes. The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office is located at Taunton, Somerset, England.

Rosily Isld
January 1838. Stokes. Named after Admiral Rosily, one of the heroes of the Battle of Trafalgar, 21.10.1805.

Tap Reef

Sultan Reef

Thevenard Isld
12.7.1801. Baudin. Named after Antoine Jean Marie Comte de Thevenard (1733-1800), French naval officer. He entered the service of the East India company as a cabin-boy in 1747, assisted in three combats with the English, and rose rapidly in rank. In 1754 he was sent with a sloop-of-war to Newfoundland, and destroyed all the establishments and fisheries along the northern coast of that colony. After the conclusion of peace, he became a naval engineer. He was a commodore in the East India fleet in 1767, but in 1769 joined the royal navy, was made captain of a frigate in 1770, and promoted first captain and knight of Saint Louis in 1773. When France sent aid to the United States in 1778, he was given command of a squadron, and carried troops and supplies to the Antilles and to this country. He made successful cruises along the coast of New England, and for his services was promoted brigadier-general of the naval forces in 1782, and chef d'eseadre in 1784. Assuming command of the station of South America in 1785, he was made vice-admiral in 1792, and he was successively marl-time prefect at Brest, Toulon, and Rochefort in 1792-'3, and again at Toulon in 1801. He was created a senator and a count in 1810, and made a peer of France, 4 June, 1814. He was a member of several learned societies of Europe and America, of the Royal academy of marine in 1773, and of the Paris academy of sciences after 1785.

Weeks Shoal

Direction Isld

Hastings Isld

Ward Isld

Beacon Pt

Ashburton Isld
Named after Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton (1774 - 1848), an English politician and financier. He regarded politics from the point of view of the business man, opposed the orders in council, "the restrictions on trade with the United States in 1812," in 1826 the act for the suppression of small bank-notes. He was Master of the Mint in in Robert Peel's government, and on the latter's retirement was created Baron Ashburton on 10 April 1835, a title previously held by John Dunning. In 1842 he was again sent to America, and the same year concluded the Webster-Ashburton Treaty. A compromise was settled concerning the north-east boundary of Maine, the extradition of certain criminals was arranged, each state agreed to maintain a squadron of at least eighty guns on the coast of Africa for the suppression of the slave trade, and the two governments agreed to unite in an effort on persuade other powers to close all slave markets within their territories. Despite his earlier attitude, Lord Ashburton disapproved of Peel's free-trade projects, and opposed the Bank Carter Act of 1844.

Roller Shoal

Brewis Reef
Named after Commander Brewis RN, who upon retirement became a naval surveyor. Brewis was commissioned in 1909 by the Frederal Government to report on the state of Australia's lighthouses.

Bowers Ledge

Tortoise Isld

Anchor Isld

Black Ledge Isld

Long Isld
Descriptive of its shape.

Table Isld
Descriptive of its shape.

Flat Isld
Descriptive of its location.

Round Isld
Descriptive of its shape.

Rocky Isld
Descriptive.

Locker Isld / Locker Pt
19.2.1818. King. Named after Captain William Locker RN (1731-1800) Lieutenant Governor of Greenwich Hospital.

Peak Isld
Descriptive of its shape.

Spider Isld

Observation Isld

Fly Isld
Named after the vessel used in hydrographic surveys of Australia's coastline between 1842-45 under Captain Blackwood. He continued the surveys of Captains Wickham and Stokes; and made a minute examination of the Great Barrier Reef.

Turbridgi Isld

Brown Isld
1882. John Forrest. Recalls Aubrey Brown, who took up land here for pastorasl activities with J.H. Monger in 1876.

Eva Isld

Rivoli Islds
22.7.1801. Baudin. Named after a battle near Verona, Italy, between France and Austria, won by Napoleon on 14.1.1797.

Cape Dupuy
26.6.1801. Baudin. Named after Andre Julien, compte Dupuy (1753-1832), administrator in Ile de France (Mauritius).

Rocky Islets
Descriptive.

Otway Isld
Named after Capt. William Albany Otway, commissioner of the Transport Board.

North Murion Isld / South Murion Isld
18.2.1818. King. Schools of murion fish seen here.

Sunday Isld
Charted on a Sunday by H.M. Ommanney in 1834.

Exmouth Gulf
18.2.1818. King. Named after Viscount Exmouth, Edward Pellew (1757-1833). First Viscount, born at Dover, descended from a family which came originally from Normandy, but had for many centuries been settled in the west of Cornwall. At the age of thirteen, he entered the navy, and even then his smartness and activity, his feats of daring, and his spirit of resolute independence awakened a remark. On the outbreak of the French War in 1793, he was appointed to the Nymph, a frigate of 36 guns; and, not withstanding that for the sake of the expedition she was manned chiefly by Cornish miners, he captured, after a desperate conflict, the French frigate La Cléopâtra, a vessel of equal strength. For this act he obtained the honour of knighthood. In 1802 Sir Edward Pellew was elected member parliament for Dunstable. In 1804 he was made rear-admiral of the blue, and appointed Commander-in-chief in India. He returned to England in 1809, and in 1810 was appointed Commander-in-chief in the North Sea, and in 1811 Commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean. (Above: Tower Zero of the US Radiocommunications Base, Exmouth, is built on North West Cape facing Exmouth Gulf).

North West Cape
10.2.1818. King. Descriptive of its position. The cape was first recorded by Capt. Heinrich Claesz in 1618 in Zeewolf, but mistook it for an island. Baudin named it Cape Murat in 1801 after Napoleon's brother-in-law, the King of Naples. In the 1920s it was known locally as Madman's Corner because of the eccentric characters who lived there.

Vlamingh Head
10.2.1818. King. Named after "William Vlamingh, who discovered these parts". In reality, Vlamingh did not discover these parts however he did pass by them in 1698, North West Cape being the point at which he concluded his explorations.

Point Murat
22.7.1801. Baudin. Named after Joachim Murat (right) (1767-1815), King of Naples, who married Napoleon's sister Caroline in 1800. Born at Lot, France, he was destined for the priesthood and studied at Cahors and the University of Toulouse. He enlisted in a cavalry regiment and was dismissed for insubordination in 1790. He became a close associate of Napoleon and on 01.08.1806 he became Napoleon's King of Naples.

Jurabi Pt
Aboriginal name of the white plumed honey eater. First recorded by ornithologist Thomas Carter.

Sandy Pt
Descriptive of its shape.

Carbalddarman Passage
Possibly the Aboriginal name of the location. First recorded by ornithologist Thomas Carter.

Norwegian Bay
Origin of the name is unknown, however it may refer to a visit to this section of the coast in 1777 by the Danish vessel Fredensburg Slott under Capt. Mathias Zosp. The description of the land sighted matches that of the coast around Norwegian Bay.

Fraser Isld
Recalls a member of a group of Victorians who invested in the Denison Plains Association. Originally spelt Frazer.

Pt Cloates
16.1.1822. King. Originally named it Cloates Island, believing it to be unattached to the mainland. Recalls King Cloots, a Flemish baron, one of the owners of the ship House of Orange, which, under Captain Nash, sailed these shore in 1717 and named the locality.

Black Rock Passage / Black Rock
16.1.1822. King. Descriptive of its shape.

Chubjawardoo Passage
Possibly the Aboriginal name of the location. First recorded by ornithologist Thomas Carter.

Greyling Head
16.1.1822. King. A type of fish caught in the area.

Amherst Point
16.1.1822. King. Named after William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst and 2nd Baron Amherst of Montreal (1773 - 1857). He was the nephew of Jeffrey, Baron Amherst, and succeeded to his title in 1797 by the remainder provided when the patent of nobility was renewed in 1788. Lord Amherst held the office of governor-general of India from August 1823 to February 1828. The principal event of his government was the first Burmese war of 1824, resulting in the cession of Arakan and Tenasserim to Great Britain. He was created Earl Amherst of Arakan in 1826. On his return to England he lived-in retirement till his death in March 1857.

Ningaloo Reef
Takes its name from the Aboriginal name for Point Cloates. It means nose, and is said to refer to the point's shape.

Coral Bay
1982. Named taken from the Coral Bay Hotel that was established in 1968 at Bills Bay.

Pt Maud / Maud's Landing
Maud Bateman. Discovered by the Captain of the schooner Maud about 1880. The Maud was owned by John Bateman of Fremantle, and named after his daughter Maud who was born in 1855. The ship was built in 1866 and wrecked in the north west in 1894. The port of Mauds Landing was surveyed in 1897 by Commander Dawson.

Bills Bay
Named after Ruby May French, affectionately called 'auntie Billie'. She was the wife of Charles French, the owner of Cardabia Station, the property surrounding Maud's Landing and Bills Bay.

Pt Anderson
18.1.1822. King. Named after William Anderson, botanist of the Apothecaries' Garden at Chelsea, England, and friend of King. Named at Mr. Cunningham's request.

Cape Farquar
12.7.1801. Baudin. Named after Sir Robert Townsend Farquhar, Governor of Mauritius 1810-1823, who did much to abolish the Malagasy slave trade and to establish friendly relations with the rising power of the Hova sovereign of Madagascar.

Gnaraloo Bay
Derived from Ngurrulhu, the Aboriginal name of the location. First recorded by ornithologist Thomas Carter, the name is thought to mean 'white clay'.

Beagle Head
January 1838. Stokes. The expedition vessel HMS Beagle anchored here.

Cape Cuvier
12.7.1801. Baudin. Named after Georges Chretian-Leopold Dagobert Cuvier (right), French astronomer/zoologist (1769-1832). also known as Cape Courier. Born on 23.08. at Montbéliard, After 4 years at the Academy in Stuttgart, he became tutor in the family of Comte d'Héricy. In this way he made contact with the well-known naturalist E. Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire and became in 1795 assistant to the professor of comparative anatomy at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. His long distinguished career with many publications ended when he died in Paris after a brief illness. Cuvier who published his system of comparative anatomy in 1800. Francois Peron had been one of Cuvier's pupils. Cuvier described many Australian fish species, many of them with Valenciennes, during the 1820s & 30s. Georges Cuvier is referred to as the founder of vertebrate palaentology.

Quobba Pt
Aboriginal name of the location, meaning 'good place'. Was named Point Charles prior to 1921 after Charles Fane who settled here in 1876.

Geographe Channel
12.7.1801. Baudin. Named after Baudin's expedition vessel, Geographe.

Whaleback Head
Jan 1822. King. Descriptive of its shape.

Koks Isld
German word for coke. Dalrymple's map of 1779 shows the name as Kok's Island. As Kok is a Dutch surname, it may recall a long forgotten Dutchman whose ship touched these shore in the 17th or 18th century; perhaps Stoffel Kok, an 18th century Dutch East India Company ship's master.

Dorre Isld
1698. Vlamingh. Named by Vlamingh using Joannes Van Keulen's 1619 Shark Bay chart and Dirk Hartog's making on his chart of 1616 for both Dorre and Bernier Islands. The name means dry or barren.

Low Pt
Descriptive.

Cape Boullanger
12.7.1801. Baudin. Named after Charles Pierre Boullanger, midshipman, geographer and engineer of survey vessel Geographe.

Cape Ronsard
12.7.1801. Baudin. Named after Francois Melchesadek Rondard, naval engineer of survey vessel Naturaliste.