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Collection 05: John Hunter journal kept on board the Sirius during a voyage to New South Wales, May 1787-March 1791
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SAFE/DLMS 164
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9WZMaXqY
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Collection 05: John Hunter journal kept on board the Sirius during a voyage to New South Wales, May 1787-March 1791
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Collection 05: John Hunter journal kept on board the Sirius during a voyage to New South Wales, May 1787-March 1791
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
May 1787-March 1791
Call Numbers
SAFE/DLMS 164
Record Identifier
Formats
— Physical Description
Contents
1 volume of textual material - manuscript
— Other Descriptions
Level of description
Sub-fonds
Access and use
Terms of use
Ask a Librarian online or in the reading room.
Issue Copy
Digitised
Finding aids
Read transcription of journal here: http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2015/D06318/a1518.html
Subjects
More information
— ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Full title
Collection 05: John Hunter journal kept on board the Sirius during a voyage to New South Wales, May 1787-March 1791
— AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Author / Creator
— NOTES
General note
Microfilm copy available at CY 3613, frames 1-191 (Microfilm copy made October 1996)
Transferred from DLSPENCER 376
Digital order no:Album ID : 823673
Published information
This journal has been published: 'John Hunter, An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island: including the journals of Governors Phillip and King ...' (London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1793). A preservation microfilm copy of Hunter's own copy of his published Historical Journal, 1793, is available at CY 532, frame...
— CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION
Source
Bequeathed by Sir William Dixson, 1952
Dixson had acquired the journal from Angus & Robertson, 22 December 1918, for 1000 pounds.
Exhibited in
Dare to know : the art and science of Pacific voyages
Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection
Dixson 60
Artist colony: drawing Sydney’s nature
UNESCO Six
Living Language: Country, Culture, Community
Administrative / Biographical history
John Hunter sailed with the First Fleet as second captain on board HMS Sirius. Once at Port Jackson, Hunter made surveys in the harbour and around the coast and records in his journal his surprise at the size of the indigenous population which belied the notion of terra nullius. In October 1788, the Sirius, under Hunter, returned to the Cape of Go...
Identifiers
— PRIMARY IDENTIFIERS
Call Numbers
SAFE/DLMS 164
Record Identifier
9WZMaXqY
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https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9WZMaXqY
— OTHER IDENTIFIERS
Reference code
412913
