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Peron Islands

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Name Peron Islands
Type Designation Island Group
Place Id 20863
Place Type Feature
Status Recorded
Date Registered
Location (Datum GDA94)  
Latitude: -13° 11' S (Decimal degrees -13.192564)
Longitude: 130° 03' E (Decimal degrees 130.051137)
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Locality / Suburb  
  Rakula
Local Government Area  
 
History/Origin PP King records (on 2 September 1819) the naming of Peron Island by Nicolas Baudin in June, 1803. He compared his longitude with Baudin, who is believed to have named the Island after Francois Peron, the French naturalist who was accompanying Baudin on the "Naturalist".

However, there is no mention of Baudin naming the island in Christine Cornell translation of "The Journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin" Libraries Board of South Australia, 1974.

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