Backstairs Passage

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Backstairs Passage
7.4.1802. Flinders. Back entrance to Investigator Strait and St Vincents Gulf from Bass Strait. Baudin named it Detroit de Colbert (Colbert Strait) after Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683), a distinguished French statesman, minister of finance in the reign of Louis XIV.
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Coordinates:   35°42'33"S   138°6'5"E
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