Who fired the cannon?
Hume & Hovell 1824: Who fired the cannon? On December 16, 1824 the Hume and Hovell finally reached Corio Bay, close to Point Lillias and ‘Bird Rock’. The next day the party camped adjacent to (more…)
Hume & Hovell 1824: Who fired the cannon? On December 16, 1824 the Hume and Hovell finally reached Corio Bay, close to Point Lillias and ‘Bird Rock’. The next day the party camped adjacent to (more…)
A review of Hamilton Hume Sketch Maps: Origins and Modern Treatment by Martin Williams Following Hamilton Hume and William Hovell’s first overland journey of exploration from southern New South Wales into Victoria in 1824 a (more…)
On September 30, 2024 William Wood, from the Foyle Special Collections Library at King’s College London, published an interesting article on the exploration of Hume and Hovell following an intriguing request from a researcher. The (more…)
Hume and Hovell: ‘Knowing the Past, but not captive to it’ As its 200th anniversary draws near Michael O’Donnell reflects on Hume and Hovell’s epic exploratory journey, which reached the shores of Corio Bay near (more…)
Foster Fyans (1790-1870) played a significant role in the European settlement of Victoria and the dispossession of its Aboriginal people. This article examines a letter he wrote in 1853 about his experiences at that time. (more…)
This is the seventh instalment of the Investigator’s series ‘The Story of Geelong’, published in May 1967. Using John Wedge’s journals and a subsequent map of his explorations the writer takes the reader along on (more…)
Hume and Hovell The fifth instalment of The Story of Geelong was published in the Investigator magazine during November 1966. It covers the overland exploration undertaken by Hume & Hovell during 1824 and it provides (more…)
David Collins and the Sullivan Bay Settlement In the fourth issue of Investigator magazine in 1966, the Story of Geelong featured an account of the ill-fated settlement at Sullivan Bay in 1803. The article focused (more…)
Grimes and Flemming – the Story of Geelong. In the May edition of 1966 the Investigator magazine continued its ‘Story of Geelong’ with the following account of the five week expedition to Port Phillip mounted (more…)
Flinders in the Investigator. This article on Matthew Flinders was the second in a series called ‘The Story of Geelong’ and originally published in the first volume of the Geelong Historical Society’s magazine ‘Investigator’. It (more…)
The Story of Geelong. The first edition of Investigator, the Geelong Historical Society magazine, was published in September of 1965 and it included a series of articles it described as ‘the story of Geelong’. The (more…)
Port 16 … is this Matthew Flinder’s most important discovery? In 1802 when Matthew Flinders began his journey that resulted in the first circumnavigation of our continent he made one discovery that he prosaically labelled (more…)