Useless harbor

Called Useless Inlet or sometimes Useless Harbor in English, the harbor Inutile is a bay Australia located inside the Golfe of the Indian Ocean which one calls Baie Shark. Formed by two small Peninsula S parallels pointing towards north, Bellefin Prong and Heirisson Prong, it starts starting from the Cape Bellefin in the North-West and of the Cape Heirisson in the North-East. In the south, it is inserted inside the grounds formed by a vast spit of land to which all these geographical entities are attached, the Péninsule Carrarang, which closes the south-west of the gulf.

History

If the Baie Shark were discovered by the Dutch as of the 17th century, it is necessary to await the beginning of 19th 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 is thus the Inutile harbor.

According to chapter X of the Voyage of discovered with the southern lands published by François Péron in 1807, this bay 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 after being arrived there by the east, and thus while doubling the Cape Heirisson. In the facts, this distance varies much and is being reduced as one is inserted in bay towards the south. The explorer notices it, moreover, since he writes that “ soon it decreases rather quickly while advancing towards the bottom and it is nothing any more but half of this interval ”

Random links: