Grant’s Secret Discovery
In this well researched and produced video, GHS member Harry Roberts, provides the viewer with the background and intrigue behind the secret discovery of Port Phillip in the early 1800s.
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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 as Port 16. We know it better as Port Phillip. Following maps and guides provided by George Bass, Flinders at…
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Flinders in the Investigator – Investigator Vol 1 No 2
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 provides some context for and a brief snapshot and chronology of Matthew Flinders’ activities in Port Phillip during 1802. Of…
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ROBERT MUIRHEAD – Investigator December 2021
of Yarram Yarram and Osborne House By Daryl Wight Robert Muirhead (1813? – 1862), shepherd and squatter, was born in Stirlingshire, Scotland, son of John Muirhead. He was already ‘accustomed … to the management of sheep’ when he boarded the ship Rajah, at Leith, in April 1838, for the long journey to Australia. The ship arrived in…
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Hume and Hovell – Investigator Vol 1 No 5
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 interesting detail on their journey and their interactions with the Wadawurrung, which included the names of important natural features such…