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Fleurieu Peninsula (S.A.)

LC control no.sh 87002957
Geographic headingFleurieu Peninsula (S.A.)
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Geographic subdivision usageAustralia--Fleurieu Peninsula (S.A.)
Variant(s)Fleurieu Peninsula (S. Aust.)
See alsoPeninsulas--Australia
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Found inWork cat.: Climatic survey, Fleurieu, region 4, South Australia, 1975.
Lippincott.
Old catalog heading (Fleurieu Peninsula)
GeoNames [algorithmically matched] (cape; 35°30ʹ00ʺS 138°30ʹ00ʺE)
PlaceNames online: South Australian state gazetteer, viewed Dec. 14, 2013 (Fleurieu Peninsula; feature type: Peninsula; GDA 94 coordinates: -35.5335695 138.3968237; AGD 84 coordinates: -35.53501867 138.39544592; so named because of the help given by de Fleurieu to Nicholas Baudin's expedition. Charles Peirre Claret, Comte de Fleurieu (1738-1810), French navigator and Minister for Marine. Name reinstated for use following a visit by a Count de Fleurieu in 1911)
Wikipedia, Dec. 14, 2013 (Fleurieu Peninsula; a peninsula located south of Adelaide in South Australia, Australia; named after the French explorer and hydrographer Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu by the French explorer Nicolas Baudin as he mapped the south coast of Australia in 1802)
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