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Letters from Port Essington, 1838-1845 / compiled and edited by J.M.R. Cameron.

Title
Letters from Port Essington, 1838-1845 / compiled and edited by J.M.R. Cameron.
Publication
Darwin, N.T. : Historical Society of the Northern Territory, 1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Cameron, J. M. R. (James McDonald Rapson), 1942-
  • Historical Society of the Northern Territory.
Description
viii, 178 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Northern Territory > Colonization
  • Port Essington (N.T.) > Correspondence > 1824-1851
  • Port Essington (N.T.) > Discovery and exploration
  • Port Essington (N.T.) > History
Note
  • The letters in this volume were written from, or were about, Port Essington from its formation in 1838 until 1845. Port Essington (1838-1849) was the third British attempt to establish a permanent presence on Australia's northern coastline in the second quarter of the nineteenth century and followed earlier attempts at Melville Island (1824-1828) and Raffles Bay (1827-1829).
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 1876248394
  • 9781876248390
Owning Institutions
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