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Etching "Botany Bay, 1788"

Etching "Botany Bay, 1788"

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1987 About this object: Created as part of a special commission for Pierre Roussel, President of the La Perouse Association, this work is one of three etchings produced by Pamela Griffith during the Australian Bicentena...
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Engravings, old ports of Honfleur and Lorient

Engravings, old ports of Honfleur and Lorient

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1787 About this object: These two engravings depicts scenes at the French ports of Honfleur and Lorient. They were originally engraved by Nicolas Marie Ozanne, a marine painter, engraver and engineer.
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Prints, Tombeau d'un indigene, Danse des Naturels, Famille de Sauvages

Prints, Tombeau d'un indigene, Danse des Naturels, Famille de Sauvages

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1820-1840 About this object: These three prints portray Aboriginal individuals in Australia, accompanied by labels from the artist that strongly emphasize the colonial and racist perspectives held by Europeans towards First ...
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Prints, Inhabitants of Australia

Prints, Inhabitants of Australia

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1830-1835 About this object: These prints portray Aboriginal individuals in Australia, accompanied by labels from the artists that strongly emphasize the colonial and racist perspectives held by Europeans towards First Natio...
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Engravings, Ports of Brest, Marseille, Toulon and La Rochelle at the time of La Perouse

Engravings, Ports of Brest, Marseille, Toulon and La Rochelle at the time of La Perouse

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1776-1785 About this object: These four engravings depicts scenes at four French ports that were active in France at the time of La Perouse, Brest, Marseille, Toulon and La Rochelle. They were originally engraved by Nicolas ...
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Print, Louis Antoine, Count of Bougainville arriving in Tahiti

Print, Louis Antoine, Count of Bougainville arriving in Tahiti

Item Type: Museum ObjectsAbout this object: This romanticised illustration depicts French navigator Louis Antoine de Bougainville landing at Tahiti in 1768. Bougainville stands aboard a longboat approaching the shore, surrounded by his cre...
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Etching, "The Laperouse Museum"

Etching, "The Laperouse Museum"

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1987 About this object: This etching by Australian artist Pamela Griffith depicts the La Perouse Museum, housed in the former Cable Station, with its green roof and verandah, framed by a pine tree, the historic watchtow...
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Tompion from Helicopter Carrier Jeanne D'Arc

Tompion from Helicopter Carrier Jeanne D'Arc

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1985 About this object: This bronze tompion, originally a decorative plug used to protect a ship’s gun barrel, was presented by the French Navy helicopter carrier Jeanne d’Arc during her visit to Sydney on 1 March 1...
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Replica of La Perouse Bust by Rude

Replica of La Perouse Bust by Rude

Item Type: Museum ObjectsAbout this object: This bust of La Perouse is replica of the model originally sculpted in marble by Francois Rude between 1828 and 1831.
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Fibreglass Replica of L'Astrolabe Admiralty Anchor

Fibreglass Replica of L'Astrolabe Admiralty Anchor

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1971 About this object: This fibreglass anchor is a replica of L'Astrolabe Anchor and was initially displayed in lieu of the original anchor which was considered as too deteriorated.
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L'Astrolabe Admiralty Anchor

L'Astrolabe Admiralty Anchor

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1781-1785 About this object: This iron anchor is believed to have belonged to L’Astrolabe, one of the two ships of the 1785–1788 Lapérouse expedition. Likely raised in 1959 from the wreck site at Vanikoro in the Solomon...
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18th century French Barometer

18th century French Barometer

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1792-1834 About this object: This barometer is an example of a scientific instrument by the French maker Jecker, who established his workshop in Paris after training in England; during a period when most scientific instrumen... Provenance : Donated by Secretariat D'Etat au Pacifique Sud, a French government department in Noumea in New Caledonia
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Standard floor globe

Standard floor globe

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1802 About this object: This floor standing globe is an example of a "library globe", which would have been standard part of a set of instruments and furniture found in the cabin of a ship in the early 19th century.
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Wooden and pearl decorated walking stick

Wooden and pearl decorated walking stick

Item Type: Museum ObjectsAbout this object: This fine grained wood walking stick comes with decorative panels and represents the figure of a man, with inlaid pieces of mother of pearl shell in the eyes and navel.
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Ceremonial model canoe

Ceremonial model canoe

Item Type: Museum ObjectsAbout this object: This small wooden canoe comes as a decorative ceremonial model, painted and decorated with mother of pearl shell.
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Commemorative medallion of La Perouse' expedition in Botany Bay from January to March 1788, and his disappearance at Vanikoro.

Commemorative medallion of La Perouse' expedition in Botany Bay from January to March 1788, and his disappearance at Vanikoro.

Item Type: Museum ObjectsAbout this object: This bronze medallion commemorates the last phase of La Perouse's expedition from January to March 1788; his last known stop in Botany Bay, and disappearance at Vanikoro.
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Book, Voyage aux îles de la Mer du Sud, en 1827 et 1828 by Peter Dillon; in two volumes

Book, Voyage aux îles de la Mer du Sud, en 1827 et 1828 by Peter Dillon; in two volumes

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1827-1828 About this object: Consisting of two volumes, this book was written by Peter Dillon about his 1827-1828 expedition in the South Pacific, during which he located the shipwreck of L'Astrolabe. Dillon's report solved ...
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Surveyor's measuring tool

Surveyor's measuring tool

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1787-1815 About this object: This surveyor measuring tool is an example of instruments created by Etienne Lenoir, a famous French instrument maker who's known for his mechanical genius. Nominated Certificated Engineer to the...
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Marmot fur pelt from the North Pacific

Marmot fur pelt from the North Pacific

Item Type: Museum ObjectsAbout this object: Fur pelt from a North Pacific marmot
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Wild fox fur

Wild fox fur

Item Type: Museum ObjectsAbout this object: Fur from a whole wild fox
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Commemorative medallion of the massacre of Tutuila

Commemorative medallion of the massacre of Tutuila

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 2000-2002 About this object: This medallion refers to two events of la Perouse's expedition. On one side, it commemorates La Perouse reaching the South China coast at Macau on January 3rd, 1787, to then crossing to Kamchatka...
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Set of 8 mathematical instruments

Set of 8 mathematical instruments

Item Type: Museum ObjectsAbout this object: This set of mathematical instruments includes 8 pieces, including a protractor and a ruler.
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Ivory Snuffbox

Ivory Snuffbox

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1830-1850 About this object: This finely crafted snuff box was used to carry powdered tobacco, a popular luxury in 17th-19th century Europe. Snuff boxes were symbols of wealth and taste, often elaborately decorated with enam...
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Commemorative medallion for La Perouse's expedition, portraying Louis XVI, Roi de France et de Navarre

Commemorative medallion for La Perouse's expedition, portraying Louis XVI, Roi de France et de Navarre

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: January - June 1785 About this object: This medallion showcases one side portraying the King Louis XVI and a commemorative note of L'Astrolabe and La Boussole leaving Brest in 1785. The medallion seemed to have been engraved pre-entiv...
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