Person

Helois, Robert

Occupation
Explorer

Summary

Robert Helois was a member of France's Ministère de la Marine, an organisation that set up expeditions to Australia from the late 1600s. Some of the notes from these voyages are kept at the National Library of Australia.

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Archival resources

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

  • Robert Helois - Records, 1696 - 1825, MS 11; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

Published resources

Resources

McCarthy, G.J.

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"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260