Phillip Parker King - meteorological and tide notebooks kept on HMS Adventure, 20 Nov. 1826-6 April 1829

MLMSS 7166

fonds

Nov. 1826-April 1829

421449

Microfilm : CY 4220 (MLMSS 7166)

1 box - 0.05 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript)

Phillip Parker King was born in 1791, the son of Philip Gidley King, third Governor of NSW. He entered the Royal Navy in 1807 and was promoted lieutenant in 1814. From 1817 to 1821 he conducted a survey of the Australian coast. By 1824 he was considered to be one of Britain's leading hydrographers and in that year he was made a fellow of the Royal Society. In 1825 he was given the command of HMS Adventure with orders to chart the coasts of Peru, Chile and Patagonia. He completed this task in 1830. He settled in NSW in 1855 and died in 1856. King would have used these notebooks to write 'Sailing Directions for the Coasts of Eastern and Western Patagonia, and the Straits of Magellan and the Sea-Coast of Tierra del Fuego', published in 1832.

2 Feb. to 16 Aug. 1828; Bound volume containing five notebooks in which King recorded air and water temperature, barometric pressure, wind direction and force, and remarks on the weather, while the Adventure was at Port Famine (now Puerto del Hambre, Chile). Modern binding by D.S. Murray, Sydney; bookplate of G.&N. Ingleton adhered inside front cover. (Call No.: MLMSS 7166/item 1)
20 Nov. 1826 to 6 April 1829; Notebook in which King recorded tide depth, rate and notes on the weather. Modern binding by D.S. Murray, Sydney; bookplate of G.&N. Ingleton adhered inside front cover. (Call No.: MLMSS 7166/item 2)