Flinders wrote on his 1814 general chart of Terra Australis or Australia: A line drawn under a name in the particular charts implies that names to have been given by another person; those without a line are eit
Cutting-in, or flensing, was the process of removing blubber from whales, and in 1837South Australianwas used exclusively for this purpose (South Australian Record1837a:13–16,1837b:6; Wyatt1837; Durrant2014:6). Dead whales were brought alongside the vessel, and the crew used blubber spades...
Years of transoceanic voyaging had undoubtedly taken a toll on Swallow's nearly two-decade-old hull, and the Royal Navy's investment in a new fleet of purpose- built packet brigs meant its days as a naval asset were numbered. On 1 September 1836, Swallow was put up for sale at Plymouth...