The Inaugural 3 Sheets of the Chart of Part of the N.E. Coast of Australia by Commander Phillip P. King R.N. 1819 20 21. J. Walker Sculpt. Published according to Act of Parliament at the Hydrographical Office of Admiralty -

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London: Published according to Act of Parliament at the Hydrographical Office of Admiralty 1824. Sheet 1: published 10 November 1824 depicting Percy Isles to Halifax Bay (53 x 83 cm). Old damp stains at two corners of the blank margins not affecting the printed map. Sheet 2: published 17 November 1824 depicting Halifax Bay to Claremont Isles (89.5 x 56.5 cm). Additions & corrections by Lieut. Roe R. N. to 1829. Again old damp stains at two corners of the blank margins not affecting the printed map. Sheet 3: published 17 November 1824 depicting Claremont Isles to Torres Strait (82.5 x 53 cm). Additions & corrections by Lieut. Roe R. N. to 1829. Mounted on board. The son of Philip Gidley King Phillip Parker King (1791-1856) was born on Norfolk Island. He entered the Royal Navy in 1807. In 1817 King was commissioned to survey those sections of the Australian coastline not previously examined by Matthew Flinders. Between 1817 and 1822 he undertook four voyages the first three on board HMS Mermaid and the fourth on board HMS Bathurst performing valuable surveys particularly of the north and north-west coasts of mainland Australia and of Macquarie Harbour in Tasmania which had only recently been discovered by the British (ADB 1967). King was accompanied by fellow surveyor John Septimus Roe. The three maps here offered depict much of the coastline of what is now Queensland from Percy Isles south-east of Mackay to the Torres Strait. King was made a fellow of the Royal Society in 1824 and subsequently completed important coastal surveys of South America. He later took up the role of commissioner of the Australian Agricultural Company.