Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Preliminary Notes -- Russian Vessels in Australia, 1807-35 -- 1 Beginnings, 1696-1796 -- 2 Translating Projects into Action, 1783-1803 -- 3 The First Russian Visits to Port Jackson -- 4 The 1820 Visits: Bellingshausen and Vasil'ev -- 5 New Scientific Emphases: The Visitors of 1822 -- 6 Aboriginals, Tasmanians, and Runaways -- 7 The Russian Visitors of 1825-35 -- Appendix A: Earlier Russian Science in Australia: Some Contributions -- Appendix B: Notes on Soviet and Other Archival Sources -- Appendix C: Bellingshausen's List of Plant Specimens -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Ship Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- Z.