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	Walkabout - Port Essington
		Port Essington, and the township which was variously known as Victoria or Port Victoria, is another instance of an unsuccessful attempt to settle the northern coastline of Australia.
		The ruins of Port Essington are located on the Cobourg Peninsula some 300 kilometres north of Darwin (570 km by road in a 4WD via Kakadu National Park).
		Port Essington was actually chosen as the site of the first settlement but when the settlement party, led by Captain J. Gordon Bremer, arrived in 1824 they found that there was no fresh water and so, after three days, they moved to
	www.walkabout.com.au /locations/NTPortEssington.shtml (997 words)

	Port Essington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1824, Port Essington was proposed as the first such settlement, but was later passed over in favour of Fort Dundas on Melville Island and Fort Wellington at Raffles Bay.
		Port Essington suffered a further setback when the settlement was demolished by a cyclone on November 25, 1839.
		Port Essington was still failing to attract settlers, and it was becoming increasingly clear both that the 1844 works had come too late, and that the settlement was unsustainable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Port_Essington (767 words)

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		We rapidly closed in with the land, and during the night were near enough to see the surf on the coral reefs fringing the shore, it assuming the appearance, in the bright moonshine, of a sandy beach of glittering whiteness.
		Passing through the closely packed lines of shipping, and landing as a stranger at Port Louis, perhaps the first thing to engage attention is the strange mixture of nations--representatives, he might at first be inclined to imagine, of half the countries of the earth.
		Port Curtis, comprising a space of about ten miles in length, is enclosed between Facing Island on the east, or to seaward, Curtis Island on the north, and the shores of the mainland on the western side, leaving to the southward a wide entrance partially blocked up by shoals.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/2/4/3/12433/12433.txt (15143 words)

	The History of Australian Exploration ch 19
		From Port George the Fourth the Beagle sailed for Swan River, where she arrived on the 25th of May. Her most important discovery during this cruise was King's Sound and the Fitzroy River.
		Leaving Port Essington, the Beagle discovered a river at the head of Adam Bay, which was explored for eighty miles, and called the Adelaide.
		Leaving Port Essington for the second time on September 4th, 1839, the Beagle threaded her way through Clarence Straits, to examine the western entrance, and on the 7th came in sight of the mouth of an opening not examined by Captain King.
	gutenberg.net.au /ausexplore/ausexpl2-19.html (4210 words)

	Orion Expedition Cruises - Kimberly, Top End, East Timor and Cape York - Goway Travel Experiences
		Day 2 VICTORIA SETTLEMENT, PORT ESSINGTON Victoria Settlement was begun in 1838 by the British in an idyllic setting in Port Essington, one of the world's largest natural harbours, and was intended to be a centre for commerce on the scale of Singapore.
		PORT DOUGLAS "Port", as it is locally known, was once a fishing village and sugar port.
		To the west are the lush Atherton Tablelands and the outback plains and gorges of the gulf savannah.
	www.goway.com /downunder/australia/cruises/or_exp_top_arnhem.html (1900 words)

	SPOKESHUTE Skeena River Memory
		Port Essington may be seen as the Skeena River equivalent to New Westminister on the Fraser River.
		The periods for Port Essington easily divide along generations of the Cunningham family.
		Port Essington was now linked to the interior with paddle wheel riverboats.
	www.princerupert.com /nature/spokeshu.htm (683 words)

	North Coast Forest District (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Built in the late 1800,s Port Essington was once the commercial hub of the north coast before the building of the railway
		Port Essington was the transportation hub of the North Coast.
		Port Essington supported a sawmill, salmon canneries and was a cultural centre for north coast.
	www.for.gov.bc.ca /dnc/pts_of_interest/portess.htm (105 words)

	Adventure Yarns Books about Boats
		Port Essington is entered between Smiths Point and Vashon Head.
		Port Essington is a very scenic inlet that is 18 miles in length and provides many secure anchorages.
		Smiths Point is at the eastern entrance to Port Essington and is easily identified by the monument on the point, which stands 8 metres high.
	www.takehersailing.com /advyarns_info/CruisingNAustr.htm (1404 words)

	Plant collecting - About us - Northern Territory Herbarium - Wildlife - NRETA - NT Government - Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The first of these was the garrison of Fort Dundas on Melville Island, followed by Fort Wellington on the east side of Raffles Bay (Cobourg Peninsula), Victoria Settlement at Port Essington and subsequently Palmerston, the name of the settlement established at Escape Cliff.
		Port Essington is worse than a ship, and it is no small comfort to know that this is possible.
		In the history of botanical collecting, Port Essington was an important establishment.
	www.nt.gov.au /nreta/wildlife/plants/aboutus/collecting.html (2123 words)

	SetSail.com - the serious cruising sailor's website
		We gybed onto port, and started heading in a westerly direction, "over the top" of Australian towards Darwin, which would be our last port of call in Australia.
		Between the Hole in the Wall and Port Essington, some 250 nautical miles to the West, there was not much to see in the way of landforms.
		We wandered between the remains of small stone cottages and giant ant hills, caught a glimpse of a wallaby and evidence of pigs and buffalo, and found the graveyard with its crude crypts and rough-hewn headstones.
	www.setsail.com /s_logs/backhus/george182a.html (2757 words)

	The History of Australian Exploration ch 17 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Captain King was further instructed to take from Port Jackson seeds of all vegetables that he considered most useful to propagate on the coasts to be visited, and to plant them not only in the best situations for their preservation, but that, also, they might be in sight and reach of succeeding navigators.
		At Knocker's Bay, immediately to the west of this port, the natives made a very determined attack on the boat, whilst she was hemmed in amongst the mangroves, but without doing any damage.
		The hills on the south side of the port recede from the banks of the river, and form an amphitheatre of low grassy land, and some tolerable soil, upon the surface of which, in many parts, we found large blocks of granite heaped one upon another.
	gutenberg.net.au /ausexplore/ausexpl2-17.html (5817 words)

	Alaska Cruise Companion - Port Essington. B.C. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		B.C. Port Essington and the Skeena River Salmon Fishery
		Port Essington, on the southern shore of the Skeena River, is now almost a ghost town.
		But before the runs declined and the canneries moved to Prince Rupert, where labor was cheaper, it was, like Butedale, a major cannery center for the north coast.
	www.alaskacruise.com /PortEss.htm (232 words)

	1886 Picturesque Atlas of Australasia - History of Queensland Part 5 - Interior Expansion
		It is perhaps not surprising that no exuberance of joy swelled the bosoms of the residents of Moreton Bay on being endowed with the privilege of sharing with three other districts the selection of one among fifty-four councillors.
		But the courage of the little band was sustained by their falling in with fls, among whom were some who spoke a little broken English, and who intimated that the Port Essington settlement was not far remote.
		One of these he managed to shoot, and, refreshed by its flesh, he and his companions, in a few days, dragged their weary limbs into the settlement, where, on December 17th, 1845, they were welcomed, tended, and re-clothed by the commandant, Captain Macarthur.
	www.geocities.com /toby_meares2/057.htm (4405 words)

	Port Essington, British Columbia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Port Essington was a cannery town on the south bank of the Skeena River estuary in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, between Prince Rupert and Terrace, and at the confluence of the Skeena and Ecstall Rivers.
		Port Essington burned down in a series of fires in the 1960s and is now a ghost town (despite its continuing to appear as a populated settlement in many maps and atlases).
		In the Tsimshian language, the site of Port Essington is called Spaksuut or, in English spelling, "Spokeshute," which means "autumn camping place." This also became the Tsimshian name for the town of Port Essington.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Port_Essington,_British_Columbia (313 words)

	View From The North - Episode One: Turn The Map Upside Down
		In the early 19th century the British established the ill-fated settlements of Fort Dundas and Port Essington in an attempt to capture South-East Asian trade from their rivals, the Dutch and the French.
		Melville Island and Port Essington were the sixth corner of that hexagon.
		Campbell, J. Geographical memoir of Melville Island and Port Essington, on the Cobourg Peninsula, northern Australia; with some observations on the settlements which have been established on the north coast of New Holland.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/history/hindsight/features/north/epis_1.htm (2590 words)

	Paspaley South Sea Pearl Pasha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		At the same time, there were quite a few Greeks involved in the pearling industry in the region, mainly in Port Hedland, Broome, and the North Western part of Western Australia.
		He was reputed to be a very good pearler and sailor and this reputation received a real boost when he proved to be the only pearler to rescue his entire fleet from a cyclone that wrecked almost all the other pearl luggers in Port Headland in the 1920's.
		The Paspalis siblings realised that the pearl fields were slowly being exhausted and that it would be better to leave before push came to shove and all the pearlers would begin searching for fresher pastures.
	www.design4you.co.th /pearls/section4.htm (1073 words)

	Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 ...
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		Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 from Project Gutenberg.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/5005/5.html (295 words)

	Anglican Archives in BC Display
		Cunningham was also owner of the Skeena Cannery in Port Essington and a member of the Church of England at Port Essington.
		Consists of journals kept probably by unidentified employee of the Cunningham business in which is reported the arrivals and departures of ships, goods and passengers at Port Essington together with reports of various local events.
		In a Memorial Committee report to the Synod meeting in 1935, it is mentioned that Morison was a factor [of Hudson's Bay Company?] at Port Simpson and business manager for Cunningham in Hazelton and Port Essington.
	aabc.bc.ca /WWW.angbc.archbc/display.ANGCAL-236 (280 words)

	Ludwig Leichhardt
		In October 1844, he left the Darling Downs with a party of nine men on an expedition to find a new route to Port Essington, near Darwin.
		He took with him 17 horses, 16 bullocks, 550kilograms of flour, 90 kilograms of sugar, 40 kilograms of tea and 10 kilograms of gelatine.
		Seven exhausted men finally reached Port Essington after a journey of 5 000 kilometres.
	members.tripod.com /romareilly/leichhardt/ludwig.htm (541 words)

	Our Queensland
		Leichhardt's expedition forged a path from the Darling Downs to Port Essington on the coast of Arnhem Land.
		In the 1840s Port Essington was envisaged as a Singapore-style trading port with Asia.
		Within a few years of Leichhardt's epic journey, the settlement would be abandoned, but the Prussian had no way of knowing this when, in his words, the expedition "launched, buoyant with hope, into the wilderness of Australia.
	thecouriermail.com.au /extras/oq/book2main2.html (781 words)

	John Gould Inc. - John Gilbert: A collector extraordinaire
		His relationship with Gould was more difficult, however, and Gould seemed less than careful with Gilbert on a personal level, though speaking highly of his collecting and scientific expertise.
		Gilbert was killed by an Aboriginal spear in the neck while travelling on Ludwig Leichhardt's overland expedition to Port Essington.
		A hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes Leichardti) specimen, is believed to be one of the last specimens collected by John Gilbert before his death on Ludwig Leichhardt's expedition to Port Essington.
	www.amonline.net.au /exhibitions/gould/naturalist/gilbert.htm (398 words)

	Canada Locations List - Port Dufferin to Port Royal Arm
		Port Edward, British Columbia, Populated Place, Long: -130.2833 Lat: 54.23333
		Port Essington, British Columbia, Populated Place, Long: -129.95 Lat: 54.15
		Port Harvey, British Columbia, Harbor(s), Long: -126.2667 Lat: 50.55
	www.traveljournals.net /explore/canada/locations/p/21.html (531 words)

	Establishments (Military, Penal and Agricultural)
		The earliest ones are addressed to him in Britain before he left for Port Essington and relate to his transport and provisioning etc., and the later ones (he left Port Essington about March 1850) are concerned with getting his accounts in order.
		The correspondence is not all addressed to him but presumably was passed on to him due to its subject matter.
		Western Port was discovered and named by George Bass in 1798.
	www.records.nsw.gov.au /cguide/c4g/estab001.htm (819 words)

	United Church BC Conference Display
		A Methodist church was built in Port Essington in 1876.
		On March 15, 1936 a new church building was dedicated at Port Essington, which was named Pierce Memorial, in memory of William Henry Pierce, the first Methodist Missionary in the area.
		According to the United Church yearbooks, Port Essington Pastoral Charge has had many different preaching points over the years such as Balmoral, Haysport and Sunnyside.
	aabc.bc.ca /access/uccbc/archbc/display/UCCBC-383 (171 words)

	Real Estate Agent \| Darwin Northern Territory Australia REAL ESTATE
		The process of white settlement in the Northern Territory was just as troubled and violent as elsewhere in Australia, with Aboriginal groups vainly trying to resist the takeover of land on which their way of life depended.
		The port facilities have recently had a major upgrade, and the completion in mid-2003 of a railway link to Alice Springs has locals hoping Darwin will become the continent's transport hub with Southeast Asia.
		As had been the case on the eve of the bombing of Darwin in February 1942, the pervasive mood in the town on Christmas Eve 1974 had been one of acceptance of the reality of danger, but the rejection of any suggestion that the threat of a cyclone should impinge on events of the day.
	www.bestrealestate.com.au /index.php?d=realestateagent&p=darwin (1132 words)

	Across the Top - Coral Princess Cruises - Queensland - Goway Travel
		Port Essington, on Coburg Peninsula, is famous for the ruins of the failed Victoria Settlement.
		We cruise through "The Hole in the Wall", Malay Straits and berth in the port of Nhulunbuy (Gove).
		On disembarking we are transferred to the Walkabout Lodge, tonight's accommodation.
	www.goway.com /downunder/australia/qld/cr_pc_across_top.html (824 words)

	Chapter II: Social Organisation and Marriage Regulations
		The natives, on both Bathurst and Melville Islands, are divided into a series of local groups, each of which is supposed to occupy and own a special well-defined district.
		The Port Essington tribe is allied to the Kakadu amongst whom there are very strongly developed local groups, and it is quite possible that these three groups are based on locality.
		The totem groups are strictly exogamous, and descent of both local group (or division) and of totemic group is in the female line.
	www.sacred-texts.com /aus/ntna/ntna04.htm (4347 words)

	Bad Latitude Travelogue
		A couple more short passages followed in the next couple of days; we would basically get up, make breakfast, haul up the anchor (well the windlass does) and sail for the next deserted cove or bay.
		On the 28th we arrived at Port Essington - a hopefully named place that hosted another ill fated Victorian settlement called Victoria.
		We decided to take a look at the ruins there, which are on aboriginal land, so a quick dinghy trip to the ranger station housed at the mouth of Port Essington for permits was in order before we set off into the inlet to take a look.
	www.badlatitude.com /logs/log5.htm (768 words)

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