Nicolas Baudin

Nicolas-Thomas Baudin (d. 17 Şubat 1754, Saint-Martin-de-Ré, Ile de Ré, Fransa – ö. 16 Eylül 1803, Mauritius), Fransız denizci ve kâşif. 20 yaşındayken fransız donanmasına katıldı. Amerikan Bağımsızlık Savaşı süresince Karayipler'de hizmet verdi. 1791 yılında Fransa Avusturya'ya savaş ilan edince Fransız donanmasında tekrar çalıştı. Savaştan sonra, Avustralyalı botanikçileri Hint Okyanusu'ndan Pasifik Okyanusu'na taşıyan gemilere kapotanlık yaptı. Avustralya'dan evine dönerken 16 Eylül 1803'te durakladığı Hint Okyanusu'nun güneybatısındaki Mauritius adasında veremden öldü.

Nicolas-Thomas Baudin

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İleri okumalar

• Bonnemains, J., Forsyth, E. and Smith, B. Baudin in Australian Waters: The Artwork of the French Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands 1800—1804 With a Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings and Paintings of Australian Subjects by C. –A. Lesueur and N.-M. Petit from the Lesueur Collection at the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre, France Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1988.
• Bonnemains, J., Argentin, J.-M. and Marin, M. (eds) Mon voyage aux Terres Australes: Journal personnel du commandant Baudin, Éditions Imprimerie Nationale, Paris, 2000.
• Bouvier, R. & Maynial, E. Une Aventure dans les Mers Australes: L’Expédition du Commandant Baudin (1800—1803), Mercure de France, Paris, 1947.
• Brown, A. J. Ill-starred Captains: Flinders and Baudin, Crawford House, Adelaide, 2000.
• Cornel, C. (trans.) The Journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin, Adelaide, 1974.
• Duyker, E. In Search of Madame Kerivel and Baudin’s Last Resting Place, National Library of Australia News, vol. IX, no. 12, September 1999, pp. 8–10.
• Duyker, E. François Péron: An Impetuous Life: Naturalist and Voyager, Miegunyah/Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2006, ISBN 978-0522-85260-8.
• Fornasiero, Jean; Monteath, Peter and West-Sooby, John. Encountering Terra Australis: the Australian voyages of Nicholas Baudin and Matthew Flinders, Kent Town, South Australia,Wakefield Press,2004. ISBN 1-86254-625-8
• Horner, F. The French Reconnaissance: Baudin in Australia 1801—1803, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1987 ISBN 0-522-84339-5.
• Ly-Tio-Fane, Madeleine, Le Géographe et Le Naturaliste à L’Ile-de-France 1801, 1803, Ultime Escale du Captaine Baudin: Deuxième Partie, Le Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres australes, Collection Lesueur du Muséum d’histoire naturelle du Havre, Dossier 15: Catalogue établi Jacqueline Bonnemains commenté par Madeleine Ly-Tio-fane, MSM Limited, Port Louis, 2003 [Mauritius].
• Nicolas Baudin's Scientific Expedition To The Terres Australes by Steve Reynolds - Marine Life Society of South Australia Inc.
• Plomley, B. The Baudin Expedition and the Tasmanian Aborigines 1802, Blubber Head Press, Hobart, 1983
• Toft, Klaus The Navigators - Flinders vs Baudin, Sydney, Duffy and Snellgrove, 2002. ISBN 1-876631-60-0