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C1827
View of South West Bay Goulburn Island. Watering party attacked by natives.
Phillip Parker King (1791-1856), son of Governor Philip Gidley King, was born at Norfolk Island and became one of Britain’s leading hydrographers, adding considerably to the charting of the Australian continent. In 1817, King was given command of the cutter … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
View of South West Bay Goulburn Island. Watering party attacked by natives.
Date:
C1827
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Image Size:
165mm
x 105mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1827
Description:
Phillip Parker King (1791-1856), son of Governor Philip Gidley King, was born at Norfolk Island and became one of Britain’s leading hydrographers, adding considerably to the charting of the Australian continent. In 1817, King was given command of the cutter Mermaid to complete the exploration and survey of the northwestern coast not already examined by Matthew Flinders. Amongst the nineteen man crew were Allan Cunningham the botanist, John Septimus Roe who would later become surveyor-general of Western Australia and the Sydney aborigine Bungaree. During his four subsequent voyages, King named Port Essington and Buccaneer’s Archipelago, proved the insularity of Melville Island, surveyed the west coast from Rottnest Island to Cygnet Bay and the entrance to Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1824. From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia.
Phillip Parker King (1791 - 1856)
Phillip Parker King (1791–1856) King was a naval officer, hydrographer and company manager, son of Philip Gidley King. Phillip sailed for England with his parents in October 1796 in the Britannia. When his father left England in November 1799 to become governor of New South Wales, his sister Maria was left in the care of Mrs Samuel Enderby, and Phillip was placed under the tuition of Rev. S. Burford in Essex. In 1802 he was nominated to the Portsmouth Naval Academy. In November 1807 he entered the navy in the Diana and became a midshipman serving for six years in the North Sea, the Bay of Biscay and the Mediterranean, being promoted master's mate in 1810 and lieutenant in February 1814.
