Dumont d'Urville was one of France's greatest explorers - the French equivalent of Captain Cook. He sailed the Pacific on voyages of exploration and discovery, collecting information, objects and natural history specimens. He was the first European explorer to land on the continent of Antarctica.

The Lure of the Southern Seas exhibition will be a mix of natural history watercolours, heroic Antarctic oil paintings, Pacific artefacts, rare portrait busts of indigenous subjects and paintings of people and places observed by Dumont d'Urville and his fellow travellers.

A contemporary art installation and a compelling photographic display of Antarctic panoramas, Antarctic Exposure, will complement the exhibition.

The exhibition also features a section on the Australian Antarctic Division's waste clean-up campaign at Australian Antarctic bases, with our major sponsor of the exhibition, Collex, providing resources and expertise to assist in the clean-up operation.

Exhibition open 21 December 2002 until 27 April 2003
Museum of Sydney
On the site of First Government House
Corner of Phillip & Bridge Streets Sydney
Open daily 9.30am to 5pm
Cost: General $7 Conc $3 Family $17
Telephone 02 9251 5988

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IMAGE CREDIT: Attaque des naturels sur la côte de Nouvelle-Guinée Louis Auguste de Sainson, 1827 Société de Géographie/Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Cartes et Plans Life mask of Taha Tahala (presumed to be Tangatahara Ngai Tahu), New Zealand Pierre-Marie Alexandre Dumoutier, c1840 Musée de l'Homme