Ian Campbell (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment and Heritage) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you to Senator Milne for the question in relation to Recherche Bay. As a West Australian, it is a name that I am familiar with because Bruni d’Entrecasteaux did in fact visit Recherche in southern Western Australia near Esperance. When he went to various places in the world—and he was an incredibly successful French explorer in the 1700s—I think he did not have as much—what will I call it?—inspiration in terms of naming places as other explorers had because I think he kept on recycling the names.