Murat Bay

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In 1802 Matthew Flinders, circumnavigating Australia in the Investigator sailed down the coast of Eyre Peninsula naming prominent landmarks, bays and harbours as he went. That same year the French explorer Nicholas Baudin sailed up the coast and named Murat Bay after one of Napoleon's marshalls and Thevenard after a French admiral.
Murat Bay (right)
1.5.1802. Baudin. Named after Joachim Murat (1767-1815), King of Naples, French Marshal, Grand Duke of Berg and one of Napoleon's Generals. Born at Lot, France and destined for the priesthood, he studied at Cahors and the University of Toulouse. He enlisted in a cavalry regiment and was dismissed for insubordination in 1790. He became a close associate of Napoleon and in1806 he became Napoleon's King of Naples. Baudin did not live to know that Napoleon's trusted brother-in-law, Joachim Murat, would be shot for treason in 1815.