Baie de Sarah’s Bosom. (Iles Auckland.)

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Baie de Sarah’s Bosom. (Iles Auckland.)

View shows Port Ross Bay originally known as Sarah's Bosom on Auckland Island near New Zealand. On 11 March 1840, Jules Dumont d'Urville sailed from Hobart to the sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands in command of the French ship Astrolabe. The Astrolabe and the Zélée lay at anchor in this sheltered harbour for eight days in March 1840. While the scientists on board explored the region and collected bird, plant and rock samples, Louis Le Breton recorded the scene. Le Breton was a surgeon and later the official artist on board the Astrolabe, which undertook a scientific expedition to the Southern Hemisphere between 1837 and 1840. He produced more than 170 sketches, which are among the earliest known pictorial records of the Auckland Islands. Many of these were reproduced as lithographs for D'Urville's travelogue Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie (Voyage to the South Pole and Oceania), published between 1842 and 1846.

ca. 1825

Artist

Lemercier