Baudin expedition to Australia

The Baudin expedition (French: Expédition Baudin) of 1800 to 1803 was a French expedition to map the coast of New Holland (now Australia). It was approved by Napoléon Bonaparte and Nicolas Baudin was selected as its leader. It started with two ships, Géographe, captained by Baudin, and Naturaliste, captained by Jacques Hamelin, and was accompanied by nine zoologists and botanists, including Jean-Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour, François Péron and Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, as well as the geographer Pierre Faure. The expedition was considered a great success, as it produced the Freycinet Map of 1811, the first full map of Australia, and discovered more than 2500 new species.