Dernier voyage de Dumont d’Urville. Debarquement sur la terre Adelie, Je 21 janvier 1840. / Rade d’Hobart-Town ile Van-Diemen.

Title

Dernier voyage de Dumont d’Urville. Debarquement sur la terre Adelie, Je 21 janvier 1840. / Rade d’Hobart-Town ile Van-Diemen.

Description

Two views of Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville's (born 1790 - died 1842) last voyage. The upper view shows the landing on Adélie Land on January 21, 1840, on the left side of the picture are several penguins. Adélie Land was discovered on January 20, 1840 by the Frenchman Jules Dumont d'Urville, who named it after his wife Adèle. Since 1955 it has belonged to the territory of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands. The lower view shows Hobart Town. Hobart is now the capital of the island state of Tasmania, Australia. Published by L'Illustration, Journal Universel.

ca. 1860

Artist

Anonymus

Historical Description

In 1642, the Dutchman Abel Tasman sailed along the south coast of Australia with the ship Heemskerck and the Fleute Zeehaen and discovered this area as well as New Zealand. The voyage was commissioned by the Governor General of the Dutch Indies, Anton van Diemen, after whom he named the newly discovered land (Van Diemens Land). However, Tasman assumed that it was a peninsula of the Australian continent. In 1772, the British explorer Tobias Furneaux went ashore in the southeast of the island. A year later it was also visited by the French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne. In 1798, British Captain Matthew Flinders established that it was an island by discovering Bass Strait. Shortly after the establishment of the British colony of New South Wales on the Australian mainland, a French expedition landed on Tasmania in 1792 to explore the country. In 1803, the British established Risdon Cove on the Derwent River, the first permanent European settlement in what is now Tasmania. A year later, they abandoned it and founded Hobart Town (Hobart) in the south and Port Dalrymple (today George Town) in the north of the island. In 1825, Van Diemens Land became an independent colony from New South Wales.