Place	Torres Straight Islands
Subject	Voyages and travels Discovery and exploration–French Australia–Discovery and exploration Australia–Torres Strait Islands (Qld.) Early maps Ship letters
Category	1. Settlement
Author	Boissieu, Edmond De
Current holder	State Library of New South Wales
Series number	MLMSS 11683
Item number	9yM0rV29
Access rights	Digitised
Rights	Out of copyright. Please acknowledge: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.
Country of origin	Australia
Language	French
Period of reference	1829 to 1832
Description from source	0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder) – manuscript A page of detailed notes in Boissieu’s hand with the heading ‘Note sur la navigation du Detroit de Torres. Extrait de l’atlas de Flinders’, giving precise instructions relating to the passage through the Torres Strait, including directions, the location of little-recorded reefs, and other geographical coordinates.
Physical format	Correspondence Maps
Bibliographic citation	https://www.zotero.org/groups/4688363/oama/items/RDJHPBVT/ https://www.zotero.org/groups/4688363/oama/items/MDGIE7AJ/