Charles-Pierre Boullanger (1772-1813) was a French geographer who served on
Nicolas Baudin’s scientific
expedition to the
South Pacific and its islands from 1800 to 1803. He was a midshipman
cartographer and hydrographic engineer on the survey vessel Le Géographe with the sister ship Naturaliste. During this expedition he produced, with
Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, a detailed map of the east coast of Australia.[1]
Boullanger led a small group sent by Nicolas Baudin to
Maria Island off the east Tasmanian coast on 19 February 1802.
Honours
Geographic features names in Boullanger's honour:
Cape Boullanger — the north end of Maria Island.
Cape Boullanger — the northern tip of
Dorre Island in the present-day Shark Bay nature reserve off the coast of Western Australia.
Cape Boullanger as the southernmost tip of
Rottnest Island off Western Australia.
^See
Edward Duyker 2006. François Péron: An Impetuous Life: Naturalist and Voyager, Miegunyah/Melbourne University Press, Melbourne.
ISBN0-522-85260-2 [winner Frank Broeze Maritime History Prize, 2007].