Nicolas Baudin was a French Naval Officer who mapped the island of Tasmania and explored a lot of the coastline of Australia, along with Geographe Bay, Guichen Bay , Fleurieu Peninsula, Murat Bay, and Shark Bay and the Gulf of Carpentaria, from 1800 until 1803. Baudin and his scientist crew members sailed in the ship called "La Geographe" ,meaning geography in French, and did plenty of scientific explorations of other Southern Hemisphere areas. Including the island of Timor. His expedition mapped the coastlines, collected scientific specimens, and made drawings of the areas. In April, 1802, Baudin met the Australian explorer Matthew Flinders in southern Australia. He died on the way home to France on the island of Mauritius in 1803.
