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944754
  • Title
    Joseph Beet Jukes 'Observations on the Advantages and practicability of establishing a post or small settlement in Torres Straits', 22 October 1845
  • Creator
  • Call number
    DLMSQ 645
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    October 1845
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    944754
  • Physical Description
    1 folder of textual material (23 p.) - 25 cm.
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    Joseph Beete Jukes, 1811-1869, geologist, was born in England. In 1842, he was appointed naturalist in H.M.S. Fly's expedition, which between 1842-1845, twice circumnavigated Australia, and conducted a maritime survey from the South East coast of New Guinea to the Southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef, and including Torres Straits
  • Scope and Content
    Enumeration of the advantages of establishing a port in the southern portion of Torres
    Straits, with a description of the straits and islands and Cape York. Includes remarks on climate, physical features, vegetation, the Torres Strait Islanders; showing the area's potential for a post
  • Finding Aids
    Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -
  • Description source

    Information transferred from Dixson Manuscript Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012.
  • General note

    A typescript copy is filed in the Mitchell Library at A 1267/22 Governor's Despatches
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