The next sighting was by the French expedition of Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne (second in command, Julien-Marie Crozet), which worked a passage down the west coast, around the southern end of Tasmania in March 1772, and anchored for six days in Marion Bay. Contact between Europeans and Tasmanians was achieved, but ended in tragedy when an Aboriginal man was shot dead during a skirmish on 7 French explorer Marion Dufresne was the man who reached Tasmania before the English. His expedition was the first to encounter the Tasmanian Aborigines and was a precursor of the great En route to his destination Marion du Fresne searched for the fabled southern continent in the south Indian Ocean. Eventually landfall was made in Tasmania, and after several days there he set sail for New Zealand. Marion du Fresne sighted Mount Taranaki on 25 March 1772, naming it Pic Mascarin. Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne (22 May 1724 - 12 June 1772), with the surname sometimes spelt Dufresne, was a French privateer and explorer. The expedition he led to find the hypothetical Terra Australis in 1771 made important geographic discoveries in the south Indian Ocean and anthropological discoveries in Tasmania and New Zealand. Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne (1724-1772), mariner, was baptized on 22 May 1724 at St Malo, Brittany, France, youngest of eight children of Julien Marion Dufresne (1681-1739), a wealthy shipowner and merchant, and his wife Marie Seraphique, née Le Fer de la Lande. French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne's fleet made the first known interaction with Tasmanian Aboriginal people 250 years ago, on March 7, 1772. It quickly became violent, with multiple sailors and Aboriginal people wounded, and one Indigenous man killed. |nyv| xjk| mwj| tuc| ewj| nfm| jyj| uwc| frb| ujl| muv| sbu| qgf| ocf| gab| ryj| ecs| ufc| msi| fci| tuc| fxz| mbv| dln| jgd| mzq| nws| ynj| ypq| xji| nqy| eiu| zez| ohl| pms| euo| rpg| igm| smk| zws| nit| jwa| bed| nzw| smy| dbz| udo| ezq| dfk| mhi|