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y separately published work icon The History of Australian Discovery and Colonisation single work   non-fiction  
Alternative title: History of Australian Discovery and Exploration; Australian Discovery and Colonisation
Issue Details: First known date: 1865... 1865 The History of Australian Discovery and Colonisation
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  • Appeared in the Empire in irregular instalments during 1865-1866, with the title 'Australian Discovery and Colonisation'.

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First known date: 1865
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Hanson and Bennett , 1865 .
      Extent: 5 Partsp.
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      • Issued in five parts (bound to form one volume): Part 1. From the Earliest Times to the Foundation of the Colony of New South Wales; Part 2. The Progress of the Colony of New South Wales from its Foundation to the Year 1800; Part 3. Progress of Discovery and Colonisation from 1800 to 1810; Part 4. Progress of Discovery and Colonisation During Governor Macquarie's Administration 1810 to 1821: Part 5. From the Commencement of Governor Brisbane's Administration, in 1821, to the Close of Governor Darling's Administration in 1831.
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A True Moreton Bay Story Samuel Bennett , 1866 extract column (The History of Australian Discovery and Colonisation)
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 9 June 1866; (p. 2-3) Bennett explains the circumstances of the discovery of the Brisbane River and the establishment of Moreton Bay settlement. He relates the story of how a traveller named Uniacke, by publishing the story of his encounter with a castaway, Thomas Pamphlet, contested explorer John Oxley's claim of discovering the river. Pamphlet had been travelling from Sydney on board a ship that encountered a gale which blew it off course, and well out to sea. Mistakenly believing they were correcting their course, the crew headed much farther north until their lack of water and supplies forced them to make landfall at what eventually became the site of Moreton Bay. It was not Oxley who discovered the Brisbane River, claimed Uniacke, but Pamphlet and his shipmates.
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