1802 Matthew Flinders Map of Port Phillip Easyflow Early this month she was

Early this month she was towing the old bay steamer "Excelsior" (now a lighter [a form of barge that is used to transfer coal to another vessel]) from Geelong to Melbourne

there are no soldiers or War posters visible

and Hicks Atkinson on the right

the south-west extremity of New Holland: taken Dec

with City buildings and church spires in distance

1802 Matthew Flinders Map of Port Phillip Easyflow Early this month she wasIn 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