1802 Matthew Flinders Map of Port Phillip Easyflow showing street with horses and

showing street with horses and carts

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and Hicks Atkinson on the right

We have reorientated an image of it with North pointing upwards

1802 Matthew Flinders Map of Port Phillip Easyflow showing street with horses andIn 1802, Matthew Flinders, on the Investigator, was charting the southern coastline of Australia, when he entered an immense bay, which we now know as Port Phillip Bay. Just 10 weeks earlier, acting Lieutenant John Murray commanding HMS Lady Nelson entered the Bay on the 14th February 1802 and named it Port King in honour of the Governor of New South Wales at the time, Philip Gidley King. On 4 September 1805, King formally renamed it Port Phillip, in