Cape Heirisson

The course Heirisson is a Cape Australia N which constitutes one of the points more septentrional of vast a Péninsule closing the south-west of the Baie Shark, Golfe of the Indian Ocean on the coast western of the Western Australia. Called Cape Heirisson in English, he was formally discovered by the forwarding towards the Southern Lands of the French Nicolas Baudin at the beginning of the month of August 1801.

Situation

The course Heirisson is by 26°01' 00" of Latitude southern and by 113°21' 46" of Longitude is, which places it at the northern point of small a Péninsule of the west coast of the Western Australia that one names Heirisson Prong. The latter is attached to the Eastern littoral of another spit of land much vaster which closes the south-west of the Golfe of the Indian Ocean called Baie Shark and which concerns the Comté of the bay Shark, a Zone of local government belonging itself to the area of Gascoyne.

In fact, this large peninsula called Péninsule Carrarang is roughcast several others smaller bathed by water of the Golfe. The course Heirisson is located at the end of that which advances more towards north after Bellefin Prong, which ends in the Cape Bellefin. With this last, located almost full west, and thus on a parallel hardly more septentrional, the course Heirisson is thus at the entry of a handle which is inserted towards the south. This one was called Useless Havre by Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet, member of the Expédition Baudin left the Havre, in France, on October 19th, 1800.

On the other side of the peninsula which accommodates it, the course Heirisson is located vis-a-vis the west coast of the Presqu'île Péron, from which it is separated by the entry from another deep handle that the same man named Havre Henri Freycinet in the honor of his brother.

History

If the Baie Shark were identified by the Dutch as of the 17th century, it is necessary to await the beginning of the XIX {{E}} so that it is precisely charted and its remarkable points indicated by a toponym: the ships of the Expédition Baudin arrive in the area only in the middle of the year 1801, and only the Naturaliste proceeds then to a succeeded recognition of the interior of the gulf, where thus the course Heirisson is.

According to chapter X of the Voyage of discovered with the southern lands published by François Péron in 1807, this course discovered and was named by the Enseigne of vessel and author of the known as chapter Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet during an excursion of several days that it made on board a small boat left the ship ordered by Jacques Felix Emmanuel Hamelin on August 2nd, 1801. He discovers it the August 8th then passes in front of him to enter the Useless Havre by the east. The August 10th, its recognition of the Useless Harbor finished, it slips by then towards the south after being returned at a point where it was the 7

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