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Port Phillip Bay

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

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Log entries for March 1802, 1802-03-05 - 1802-03-31

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/64: 37r-44v
Scope and Contents

Daily log entries, travelling along the south coast of New Holland via Bay 10, Port Lincoln, and the Great Inlet. Includes observations taken in rivers in Inlets Nos. 10 and 12, and at No. 16 or Port Phillip.

Dates: 1802-03-05 - 1802-03-31
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Log entries from 2 May until 21 July 1802, 1802-05-02 - 1802-07-21

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/64: 52*v-55v
Scope and Contents

Daily log entries made while the Investigator was at anchor at Port Phillip, while travelling eastwards via Wilson’s Promontory, and while in Sydney Cove, Port Jackson.

Dates: 1802-05-02 - 1802-07-21
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Observations, 1801-12-12 - 1802-05-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/68: 15-16
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Set of observations taken by Flinders, with reference made to Princess Royal Harbour (King George Sound), Port Jackson, New Holland, Port Phillip, and Kangaroo Island. Originally enclosed in a letter from Flinders to Nevil Maskelyne [RGO 14/68: 17-18].

Dates: 1801-12-12 - 1802-05-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Observations from Port Lincoln towards Port Jackson, 1802-03-05 - 1802-05-16

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/65: 28v-41r
Scope and Contents

Including observations made at (or in the vicinity of) Kangaroo Island, Port Phillip, Bass Strait and Port Jackson.

Dates: 1802-03-05 - 1802-05-16
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Summaries of observations made between December 1801 and July 1802, 1801-12-12 - 1802-07-18

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/64: 55v-60v
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Includes accounts of the rates and errors of the timekeepers by Earnshaw and Arnold, and summaries of observations to determine longitude made in Princess Royal Harbour, at Bay 10, in Port Phillip Bay and at Cattle Point on the east side of Sydney Cove, Port Jackson.

Dates: 1801-12-12 - 1802-07-18
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).