The Baudin Expedition in Port Jackson, 1902 Cultural Encounters and Enlightenment Politics

Author: MARGARET SANKEY
Explorations No 31 (Dec 2001): 5-36
https://doi.org/10.62586/PYHF4570

The article is adapted from a paper given at the 2001 conference at the University of Western Australia on the ‘Cultural Encounters in the Indian Pacific Region 1200-1800. The paper explores the cultural encounters and exchange that occurred when two French vessels, the Naturalist and the Géographe stopped in for five months at the English colony of Port Jackson in 1802.

Keywords: Baudin Expedition, Port Jackson, cultural encounters, Indian Pacific, Naturalist, Géographe