Freycinet, Louis Claude de Saulces de
Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet (August 8, 1779 - August 18, 1841) was a French Navy officer and circumnavigator. In 1811, he published the first map to show a full outline of Australia's coastline. Louis-Claude de Saulces de Freycinet joined the French Navy as a midshipman in 1793, and took part in several engagements against the British during the French Revolution (1789 - 1799). In 1800, Freycinet and his brother Louis-Henri were attached to an expedition to Australia under Nicolas Baudin (1754 - 1803), on the ships Naturaliste and Géographe. Between 1802 and 1803, Freycinet captained the schooner Casuarina, executing surveys of the Australian coast. He returned to France in 1804. Back in Paris, he prepared the maps and plans of the expedition, as well as the accompanying narrative, Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes (Paris, 1807-1816). Later, in 1817, he was given command of the corvette Uranie, which he led on scientific expeditions to Rio de Janeiro and, later, throughout the Pacific - a successful voyage, despite the loss of his ship on his return. Freycinet was admitted into the French Academy of Sciences in 1825 and was one of the founders of the Paris Geographical Society.
First Full Map of Australia, and the First to name Sydney.
Carte Generale de la Nouvelle Hollande dressee par M L Freycinet Commandant La Goelette, Le Casuarina an 1808.
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This landmark 1811 map of Australia by French explorer and cartographer Louis de Freycinet is celebrated as the first published map to depict the continent's complete coastline and the first to identify Sydney by name. Based on surveys conducted during Nicolas Baudin's French expedition to Australia aboard the Géographe and Naturaliste (1801 - 1803), it presents the continent as Nouvelle Hollande and preserves the expedition's politically charged French nomenclature, including Terre Napoléon. Issued three years before Matthew Flinders' competing map, Freycinet's chart represents a defining achievement in the exploration, mapping and naming of Australia. (more details)
First map of South Australia: politically charged French toponymy.
Carte Générale de al Terre Napoléon (À la Nouvelle Holland.)
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This landmark 1811 map of South Australia, including modern-day Adelaide and Melbourne, by French explorer and cartographer Louis de Freycinet. Based on surveys conducted during Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australia aboard the Géographe and Naturaliste (1801 - 1803), it presents South Australia with politically charged French nomenclature, including, as here, Terre Napoléon. Issued three years before Matthew Flinders' competing map, Freycinet's chart represents a defining achievement in the exploration, mapping and naming of South Australia. (more details)