Cape Northumberland charted |
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| Title : | Cape Northumberland charted |
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| Creator : | Grant, James, 1772-1833 | ||
| Source : | Narrative of a voyage of discovery,... in the years 1800, 1801 and 1802, to New South Wales / by James Grant. To which is prefixed, An account of the origin of sliding keels ... | ||
| Place Of Creation : | London | ||
| Publisher : | Printed by C. Roworth ... for T. Egerton ... | ||
| Date of creation : | 1803 | ||
| Additional Creator : | Grant, James, 1772-1833. | ||
| Format : | Book | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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The chart shows Grant's discoveries in 1800 on the South Australian coastline, the first European surveying since Nuyts voyaged along the far west coast in 1627. Grant charted and named Capes Banks and Northumberland, and sighted inland the hills he named Mt Gambier and Mt Schank, the latter after the designer of his ship the Lady Nelson, with its sliding keels. The chart shows the track of the ship 'Lady Nelson' through Bass Strait with a reference to Bass' and Flinders' discoveries.Relief shown pictorially.
James Grant's chart of Bass Strait also shows Capes Northumberland and Banks, Mount Gambier and Mount Schank, the first new portion of the South Australian coast discovered since 1627. Grant recorded that at daybreak on 3 December 1800, he saw an appearance of land 'like unconnected islands, being four in number, which on our nearer approach turned out to be two Capes and two high mountains a considerable way in shore....both are covered in large trees, as is also the land which is low and flat, as far as the eye can reach. I named the first of these mountains after Captain Schank, and the other Gambier's Mountain. The first Cape I called Northumberland, after his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, and another smaller but very conspicuous jut of the land, which we plainly saw when abreast of Cape Northumberland, I named Cape Banks.' James Grant was in command of the Lady Nelson a specially designed vessel of shallow draft for survey work in coastal waters. Lady Nelson was equipped with sliding keels (retractable) and was intended for use by Matthew Flinders in his exploration of the Australian coast. Grant was taking the vessel to Port Jackson (Sydney). Mount Schank was named for Admiral John Schank, the ship's designer; Lord Gambier had commanded the British fleet at the second battle of Copenhagen in 1807; the Duke of Northumberland was a British General and Sir Joseph Banks was President of the Royal Society and advisor to the British Government on matters of exploration. He had accompanied James Cook on his voyage to the Pacific Ocean in 1768-70. |
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| Related names : | Grant, James, 1772-1833 Lady Nelson (Ship) |
| Coverage year : | 1800 |
| Region : | South East |
| Further reading : | Grant, James, The narrative of a voyage of discovery performed in his majesty's vessel the Lady Nelson of sixty tons burthen, with sliding keels; in the years 1800, 1801, and 1802, to New South Wales Melbourne: Heritage Publications, [1974?] Lee, Ida The logbooks of the 'Lady Nelson': with the journal of her first commander, Lieutenant James Grant, R.N. London: Grafton, 1915 Flinders, Matthew, A voyage to Terra Australis ... Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia, 1966 |
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