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Freycinet, Louis de. Voyage de decouvertes aux terres : Atlas historique, Part 2. (1811) - Plate no. 8. 'Plan de l'ile Descres (a la Terre Napoleon, Nouvelle Hollande).'Plate no. 8. Freycinet, Louis de, & Henri-Louis, and Boullanger, Charles-Pierre. Plan de l'ile Descres (a la Terre Napoleon, Nouvelle Hollande) (1802 & 1803). Map of Kangaroo Island, South Australia with relief shown by hachures. Kangaroo Island was named Ile Descres by Francois Peron, after the French Minister of Marine. None of Matthew Flinders' prior discoveries on the northern coast of the Island, or his finding of the strait between Yorke Peninsula and the Island and the adjoining gulf, are acknowledged on the map. Click here for catalogue information on this item.
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