Exploration Medals
Lot 2933 Session 11 (9.30am Thursday 24 November) Leslie J Carlisle C Exploration Medals
Estimate $400
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $240
LOUIS DE FREYCINET'S SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION, Cruise of the Corvette 'Uranie', 1817, in bronze (40.5mm) by Andrieu (cf MH 188). Some hairlines on reverse and small edge bump, otherwise nearly extremely fine.
The 'Uranie', captained by Louis de Freycinet sailed from Toulon in 1817 on a world cruise. The ship landed at Shark Bay on the West Coast of Australia, on the 12th September 1818, where an observatory was set up. After visiting Timor and the Sandwich Islands the 'Uranie' reached Port Jackson on the 19th November 1818. It left on Boxing Day that year on a course for Cape Horn. On 13th February 1820 the ship was wrecked off the Falkland Islands but all crew and a good amount of the records of the voyage were saved.
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