Biographical entry Baudin, Nicolas Thomas (1754 - 1803)

Summary

Nicolas Thomas Baudin explored the western and southern coasts of Australia between 1800 and 1803 in the ships "Le Geographe" and "Le Naturaliste".

Details

Born St-Pierre-de-Ré, France, 19 February 1754. Died Mauritius, 16 September 1803. Mercantile marine; naval cadet 1774-1786; sub-lieutenant 1786; seconded to the Archduke Francis of Austria; in charge of a scientific expedition to the Indian Ocean 1792; scientific voyage to the West Indies 1796; led expedition to complete the French cartographic survey of the coast of Australia and conduct other scientific investigations 1800-1803.

Archival resources

JS Battye Library of West Australian History, State Library of Western Australia

• Thomas Nicolas Baudin - Records, 1807 - 1824, LBWA/282A; JS Battye Library of West Australian History, State Library of Western Australia. Details

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

• New South Wales Colonial Secretary's Office - Records, 1799 - c. 1930, ML MSS 681; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Philip Gidley King - Records, October 1802 - January 1808, ML MSS 582; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Thomas Nicolas Baudin - Records, 1800 - 1804, B1261-1281 and A3061-A3069; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Thomas Nicolas Baudin - Records, 1801 - 1803, MS 215 and MS Q499-502; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Thomas Nicolas Baudin - Records, 1800 - 1804, ML MSS 760; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

• Thomas Nicolas Baudin - Records, 1800 - 1804, Mfm G 2155 -2188; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection

• Thomas Nicolas Baudin - Records, 1798 - 1804; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details

State Records of South Australia

• Thomas Nicolas Baudin - Records, 1800 - 1804, ARG 1/19; State Records of South Australia. Details

Published resources

Books

• Barker, Victor, Baudin's last breath, A novel by Victor Barker, Snug House Publishing, 2005. Details
• Baudin, Nicolas, The Journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin, Commander-in-Chief of the Corvettes Geographe and Naturaliste, Libraries Board of South Australia, Adelaide, 1974, 629 pp. Details
• Plomley, N. J. B., The Baudin Expedition and the Tasmanian Aborigines, 1802, Blubber Head Press, Hobart, 1983. Details
• Toft, Klaus, The Navigators: Flinders vs Baudin: the Race Between Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin to Discover the Fabled Passage through the Middle of Australia, Duffy and Snellgrove, Sydney, 2002, 354 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Hughes, Miranda, 'Tall Tales of True Stories? Baudin, Peron, and the Tasmanians, 1802', in Roy MacLeod and Philip F. Rehbock (eds), Nature in its Greatest Extent: Western Science in the Pacific, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1988, pp. 65-88. Details
• Hughes, Miranda J., 'Philosophical Travellers at the Ends of the Earth: Baudin, Peron and the Tasmanians', in R. W. Home (ed.), Australian Science in the Making, Cambridge University Press, Sydney, 1988, pp. 23-44. Details
• Marchant, Leslie R.; Reynolds, J. H., 'Baudin, Nicolas Thomas (1754-1803)', in Douglas Pike (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 1, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1966, pp. 71-73. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010067b.htm. Details

Edited Books

• Bonnemains, Jacqueline; Forsyth, Elliott;Smith, Bernard (ed.), Baudin in Australian Waters, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1988. Details
• Horner, F. B. (ed.), The French Reconnaissance: Baudin in Australia 1801-1803, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1987, 461 pp. Details

Journals

• 'The Baudin Expedition 1800-1804: Texts, Contexts and Subtexts', Australian Journal of French Studies, vol. 41, no. 2, 2004. Details

Journal Articles

• Giblin, R.W., 'Flinders, Baudin and Brown at Encounter Bay', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1929, pp. 1-6. Details
• Marchant, Leslie R., 'The Baudin Scientific Mission of Exploration and the French Contribution to the Maritime Discovery of Australia', Globe, vol. 23, 1985, pp. 11-31. Details
• O'Brien, Patty, 'Divine Browns and the Mighty Whiteman: Exotic Primitivism and the Baudin Voyage to Tasmania in 1802', Journal of Australian Studies, vol. 63, 1999, pp. 181-183. Details
• Plomley, N.J.B., 'The Baudin Expedition and the Tasmanian Aborigines in 1802', Margin, vol. 22, 1990, pp. 4-12. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Baudin, Nicolas', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-595534. Details

See also

• Steven, Margaret, First Impressions. The British Discovery of Australia, British Museum (Natural History), London, 1988, 96 pp. References on pages 72 and 73. Details