Place: Torres Strait
Summary
New South Wales Government Despatches, ca.1831-1860. Documents relating to the Torres Strait region are interspersed throughout these files. They include despatches from Governors Darling, Bourke and Gipps, and correspondence and enclosures relating to naval commanders such as Owen Stanley, Francis Blackwood and J.J.G. Bremer and also the naturalist Joseph Beetes Jukes. Topics cover shipping incidents, naval surveys, the significance of the Strait in the trade route to India and South East Asia, the establishment of ports, naval bases, defence installations, pilot stations etc. on Cape York and the Islands and observations of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islander people. MITCHELL: A.1208-A.2361.