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Named'Entrecasteaux in Van Diemen's Land
DescriptionSites of land exploration in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) during the French d'Entrecasteaux expedition in search of La Perouse.
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ContributorDr Bill Pascoe
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Subject aboriginal, exploration, french, tasmania
CreatorBill Pascoe
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Source URLhttps://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl?mode=place_detail;place_id=105665
Linkbackhttps://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl?mode=place_detail;place_id=105665
Date From1792
Date To1793
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North East Peninsula of Recherche Bay

Placename
Recherche Bay
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-43.53834492
Longitude
146.9146695
Start Date
1792
End Date
1793

Description

"The north east peninsula of Recherche Bay has an association with the French scientific and exploratory expedition of Rear Admiral Bruni D’Entrecasteaux, mounted to look for another French explorer, Jean Francois de Galaup de La Perouse. It stopped at Recherche Bay for more than four weeks in 1792 and more than three weeks in 1793. "The relatively extensive, well-documented (both pictorially and in writing), encounters on the north east peninsula of Recherche Bay, compared with those in other places and involving other expeditions, between the expedition members and the Tasmanian Aborigines, provided a very early opportunity for meetings and mutual observation. The recordings, from the French perspective, of these encounters, are important observations of the lives of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people before they were significantly affected by disease and European settlement. These observations contribute significantly to knowledge of the diversity of traditional Aboriginal cultures. "The observations relate to various parts of the place, especially including that part of the place around Blackswan Lagoon, and the beach and hinterland east of Sullivan’s Point." - Australian Heritage Database

Sources

TLCMap ID
t172f2
Linkback
https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl?mode=place_detail;place_id=105665
Created At
2022-11-24 15:42:51
Updated At
2023-12-11 17:49:40

Black Swan Lagoon

Placename
Black Swan Lagoon
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-43.53311823
Longitude
146.9218793
Start Date
1792
End Date
1793

Description

"The north east peninsula of Recherche Bay has an association with the French scientific and exploratory expedition of Rear Admiral Bruni D’Entrecasteaux, mounted to look for another French explorer, Jean Francois de Galaup de La Perouse. It stopped at Recherche Bay for more than four weeks in 1792 and more than three weeks in 1793. "The relatively extensive, well-documented (both pictorially and in writing), encounters on the north east peninsula of Recherche Bay, compared with those in other places and involving other expeditions, between the expedition members and the Tasmanian Aborigines, provided a very early opportunity for meetings and mutual observation. The recordings, from the French perspective, of these encounters, are important observations of the lives of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people before they were significantly affected by disease and European settlement. These observations contribute significantly to knowledge of the diversity of traditional Aboriginal cultures. "The observations relate to various parts of the place, especially including that part of the place around Blackswan Lagoon, and the beach and hinterland east of Sullivan’s Point." - Australian Heritage Database

Sources

TLCMap ID
t172f3
Linkback
https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl?mode=place_detail;place_id=105666
Created At
2022-11-24 15:42:51
Updated At
2023-12-11 17:49:40

Sullivan Point

Placename
Sullivan Point
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-43.5385938
Longitude
146.9131246
Start Date
1792
End Date
1793

Description

"The north east peninsula of Recherche Bay has an association with the French scientific and exploratory expedition of Rear Admiral Bruni D’Entrecasteaux, mounted to look for another French explorer, Jean Francois de Galaup de La Perouse. It stopped at Recherche Bay for more than four weeks in 1792 and more than three weeks in 1793. "The relatively extensive, well-documented (both pictorially and in writing), encounters on the north east peninsula of Recherche Bay, compared with those in other places and involving other expeditions, between the expedition members and the Tasmanian Aborigines, provided a very early opportunity for meetings and mutual observation. The recordings, from the French perspective, of these encounters, are important observations of the lives of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people before they were significantly affected by disease and European settlement. These observations contribute significantly to knowledge of the diversity of traditional Aboriginal cultures. "The observations relate to various parts of the place, especially including that part of the place around Blackswan Lagoon, and the beach and hinterland east of Sullivan’s Point." - Australian Heritage Database

Sources

TLCMap ID
t172f4
Linkback
https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl?mode=place_detail;place_id=105667
Created At
2022-11-24 15:42:51
Updated At
2023-12-11 17:49:40

A Small Cove

Placename
Bruny Island
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-43.08891784
Longitude
147.3269606
Start Date
1792
End Date
1792

Description

"Landing a little after 5 o'clock in a small cove with fine sand at the north of the island, they spent the night, which they felt very cold, notwithstanding the huge fires which they kept up. There,they found some canoes 7 to 9 feet long and 3 to 4 feet wide in the middle, tapering to a point at each end. They were made of very thick bark, arranged lengthwise, and tied togeher with rushes of ligneous grass-really only rafts shaped like canoes. There they also saw some native huts, like those which they found at the mouth of the Huon, baskets, kangaroo-skins, &c. The return to the ship was delayed by a head wind, and the next night was passed in great discomfort owing to storms of rain and hail. The following day in the bay discovered previously by De Cretin, he allowed the boat to, ground on a sand-bank at the head of the inlet, and in his own words: 'I did not hesitate to strip and leap overboard, and to, wade ashore, holding a gun in one hand and a compass in the other. On landing I heard the sea thundering on the other shore, and, crossing a tongue of land a cable's length across, I found myself on the shore of Adventure Bay. The cold did not prevent me from taking several observati,ons nor from making further sketches. Recrossing the same tongue of land through the scrub, some of which was very prickly, I returned to the boat as I had 1eft it'. After two miserable nights of squalls, rain, and hail, their provisions exhausted, they finally regained their ships. During their cruise Saint Aignan and Beautemps had made numerous observations and sketches." [p59 Hogg]

Sources

TLCMap ID
t172f5
Linkback
https://eprints.utas.edu.au/13231/1/1937-Hogg-DEntrecasteaux.pdf
Created At
2022-11-24 15:42:51
Updated At
2023-12-11 17:49:40

Adventure Bay

Placename
North Bruny
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-43.28495342
Longitude
147.3342133
Start Date
1792
End Date
1792

Description

"Landing a little after 5 o'clock in a small cove with fine sand at the north of the island, they spent the night, which they felt very cold, notwithstanding the huge fires which they kept up. There,they found some canoes 7 to 9 feet long and 3 to 4 feet wide in the middle, tapering to a point at each end. They were made of very thick bark, arranged lengthwise, and tied togeher with rushes of ligneous grass-really only rafts shaped like canoes. There they also saw some native huts, like those which they found at the mouth of the Huon, baskets, kangaroo-skins, &c. The return to the ship was delayed by a head wind, and the next night was passed in great discomfort owing to storms of rain and hail. The following day in the bay discovered previously by De Cretin, he allowed the boat to, ground on a sand-bank at the head of the inlet, and in his own words: 'I did not hesitate to strip and leap overboard, and to, wade ashore, holding a gun in one hand and a compass in the other. On landing I heard the sea thundering on the other shore, and, crossing a tongue of land a cable's length across, I found myself on the shore of Adventure Bay. The cold did not prevent me from taking several observati,ons nor from making further sketches. Recrossing the same tongue of land through the scrub, some of which was very prickly, I returned to the boat as I had 1eft it'. After two miserable nights of squalls, rain, and hail, their provisions exhausted, they finally regained their ships. During their cruise Saint Aignan and Beautemps had made numerous observations and sketches." [p59 Hogg]

Sources

TLCMap ID
t172f6
Linkback
https://eprints.utas.edu.au/13231/1/1937-Hogg-DEntrecasteaux.pdf
Created At
2022-11-24 15:42:51
Updated At
2023-12-11 17:49:40
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