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C1792
Chart of the Coast between Botany Bay and Broken Bay Surveyed in 1788 and 89 by Captain John Hunter
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The first published map to show the three harbours of Botany Bay, Port Jackson and Broken Bay and the template for later mapping of the interior as surveyed by Captain John Hunter in 1788. Hunter’s surveys of Botany Bay, Broken … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Chart of the Coast between Botany Bay and Broken Bay Surveyed in 1788 and 89 by Captain John Hunter
Date:
C1792
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Condition:
In good condition, with folds as issued.
Technique:
Copper engraving.
Image Size:
410mm
x 265mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1792
Description:
The first published map to show the three harbours of Botany Bay, Port Jackson and Broken Bay and the template for later mapping of the interior as surveyed by Captain John Hunter in 1788.
Hunter’s surveys of Botany Bay, Broken Bay and the coastlines that linked them, resulted in this crucial chart that provided the framework for all future mapping of the inland areas. Dotted lines indicate sections of Broken Bay and Botany Bay that are from ‘eye sketches’. The chart builds on Hunter’s Plan of Port Jackson New South Wales 1788, issued in Governor Phillip’s 1789 published account of the infant colony. Phillip had made three exploratory trips to Broken Bay in an attempt to locate adequate fresh water for the infant colony.
On the first trip (2 March 1788) Phillip and his crew (not including Hunter), discovered and explored: Brisbane Waters, Cowan Creek (South West Arm), Pittwater, Patonga Creek and camped on Dangar Island (Mullet Island). As supplies were running low, Phillip decided to head back to Port Jackson and although he had discovered tracts of fertile land, Phillip had not found his ‘large river’. Three months later Phillip assembled another party which included Hunter, to explore Broken Bay, leaving 6 June 1789. After further exploration of Brisbane Water, the party camped on Dangar Island for a second time. On 11 June they explored Mullet Creek and Mooney Mooney Creek and on the following day, Phillip and Hunter explored near Long Island and found themselves almost by accident, at what appeared to be an extensive inlet. They explored further upstream, reaching the Junction of the Macdonald River, noticing the water becoming increasingly fresher. Again finding their supplies were running low, they decided to return to Port Jackson to replenish.
On their third and final trip, 26 June 1789, they headed directly to their previous point on the Macdonald River and set up camp. On the following day they rowed up the Hawkesbury River to Richmond Hill. Phillip had succeeded in finding a significant freshwater river, together with large tracts of arable land.
Phillip later stated ‘The River, which I named, Hawkesbury, after Lord Hawkesbury, is laid on the Chart, from an eye-sketch made by Captain Hunter, as we rowed up it’.
From Journal of Transactions at Port.
References; Tooley 742, Powell p.11-30, Prescott 1792.06
John Hunter (1737 - 1821)
Hunter was an admiral and the second governor of New South Wales. In May 1754 he became captain's servant to Thomas Knackston in H.M.S. Grampus. In 1755 he was enrolled as an able seaman in the Centaur, after fifteen months became a midshipman, transferred to the Union and then to the Neptune, successive flagships of Vice-Admiral Charles Knowles, and in 1757 took part in the unsuccessful assault on Rochefort. In 1759, still in the Neptune, in which John Jervis, later Earl St Vincent, was serving as a lieutenant, he was present at the reduction of Quebec. In February 1760 Hunter passed examinations in navigation and astronomy and qualified for promotion as a lieutenant, but he remained without a commission until 1780. Hunter obtained his first commission in 1780 as lieutenant in the Berwick through Admiral Rodney. When the arrangements which resulted in the sending of the First Fleet to Australia were being made in 1786, H.M.S. Sirius was detailed to convoy it. Hunter was appointed second captain of the vessel under Governor Arthur Phillip with the naval rank of captain. He was also granted a dormant commission as successor to Phillip in the case of his death or absence. In Phillip's instructions, 25 April 1787, it was hoped that when the settlement was in order it might be possible to send the Sirius back to England under Hunter's command. On the outward journey, soon after leaving the Cape of Good Hope, Phillip transferred to the tender Supply, hoping to make an advance survey of their destination at Botany Bay; he placed Hunter in the Sirius in command of the main convoy, though in the result the entire fleet of eleven ships made Botany Bay within the three days 18 to 20 January 1788. When Phillip felt doubtful about Botany Bay as the site of the first settlement, he took Hunter with him on the survey which decided that the landing should be on the shores of Port Jackson. Hunter was chiefly employed on surveying and other seaman's business, as well as sitting both in the Court of Criminal Judicature, which met for the first time on 11 February, and as a justice of the peace, the oaths of which office he took on 12 February.
