Year
1803
Description
-The 'Geographe' under the French explorer Captain Nicolas Thomas Baudin, leading a scientific expedition which left Le Havre, France in 1801, visited an anchorage on the western coast of Terra Australis. A survey party reported that the opening was a shallow bar guarding the entrance of an extensive area of water.
He named the area Port Leschenault after the expedition's botanist John Claude Baptiste Leschenault de La Tour.
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