Moluccas. By this time, the affairs of the expedition had become almost desperate, largely because the officers were ardent royalists and the crews equally ardent revolutionaries. Kermadec had died of tuberculosis in Balade harbour, and on 21 July 1793, d'Entrecasteaux himself died of scurvy, off the Hermit Islands, part of the Bismarck Archipelago in Papua New Guinea. Commands were re-arranged, with Auribeau taking charge of the expedition, with Rossel in Kermadec's place. The new chief took the ships to Surabaya. Here it was learned that a republic had been proclaimed in France, and on 18 February 1794 Auribeau handed his vessels to the Dutch authorities so that the new French Government could not profit by them. Auribeau died a month later and Rossel sailed from Java in January 1795 on board a Dutch ship, arriving at Table Bay in April 1795. There his ship sailed unexpectedly with the expedition's papers, leaving him behind, but this vessel was captured by the British. Rossel then took passage on a brig-of-war, but this too was captured by the British. After the Peace of Amiens in 1802, all the papers of the expedition were returned to Rossel, who was thus enabled to publish a narrative of the whole enterprise. Australian places named after him Western Australia Point D'Entrecasteaux D'Entrecasteaux National Park South Australia D'Entrecasteaux Reef Tasmania Bruny Island D'Entrecasteaux Channel D'Entrecasteaux Monument Historic Site D'Entrecasteaux River D'Entrecasteaux Watering Place Historic Site Eponyms D'Entrecasteaux is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of lizard, Pseudemoia entrecasteauxii. See also European and American voyages of scientific exploration Middle Island (Western Australia) Notes, citations, and references Notes Citations References Douglas, Bronwen, Fanny Wonu Veys & Billie Lythberg (eds). Collecting in the South Seas; The Voyage of Bruni d"Entrecasteaux 1791–1794. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2018 Duyker, Edward and Maryse (editors and translators) (2001). Bruny d’Entrecasteaux: Voyage to Australia and the Pacific 1791—1793. Melbourne: Miegunyah/Melbourne University Press. xliii + 392 pp. [paperback edition, March 2006, ]. Duyker, Edward (2003). Citizen Labillardière: A Naturalist’s Life in Revolution and Exploration (1755—1834). Melbourne: Miegunyah/Melbourne University Press. , Paperback reprint, 2004, , pp. 383 [Winner, New South Wales Premier's General History Prize, 2004]. Horner FB (1995). Looking for La Perouse: D’Entrecasteaux in Australia and the South Pacific, 1792–1793. Carlton South, Victoria: Miegunyah Press. . McLaren, Ian F. (1993). La Perouse in the Pacific, including searches by d’Entrecasteaux, Dillon, Dumont d’Urville : an annotated bibliography.