Fleurieu Point

Fleurieu Point (54˚05'00" 133˚05'00" N of Beresford Bay, W side of Graham I, QCI). Charles Pierre Claret, Comte de Fleurieu (1738–1810), was an influential French naval officer and geographer who published a narrative of the 1790–92 round-the-world voyage of Capt Etienne Marchand. Marchand and La Solide, a well-built vessel equipped by private French interests for scientific inquiry and commercial trade, anchored at Cloak Bay for several weeks in 1791 and charted the NW QCI. Marchand died...

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