944754
- TitleJoseph Beet Jukes 'Observations on the Advantages and practicability of establishing a post or small settlement in Torres Straits', 22 October 1845
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- Call numberDLMSQ 645
- Level of descriptionfonds
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October 1845 - Type of material
- Reference code944754
- Physical Description1 folder of textual material (23 p.) - 25 cm.
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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 ContentEnumeration 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 AidsContents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -
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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 - Name
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