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Native of New South Wales

E. Piper, lithographer
after Nicholas-Martin Petit (1777—1804)
Mackabarang, a Native of New South Wales,a Frequent Visitor in the Colony, Known by the Name of Broken Bay Jack

London: G. Riley, 18 August 1803
hand-coloured mezzotint; plate mark 26.5 x 21.5 cm
U4195 NK10860

1802
January
4
Lieutenant John Murray explores the entrance to Port Phillip, taking possession in March. He also examines King Island

5 Flinders sights the Stirling Range, explores Nuyts Archipelago, and surveys Port Lincoln, Spencer Gulf (February), Kangaroo Island (March) to Port Phillip.

May
Rations are reduced in Sydney owing to the growing food shortage

June
2
Aboriginal leader Pemulwy is shot and killed following the killing of four white men at Parramatta and Toongabbie

20 French ship Le Geographe, captained by Nicolas Baudin, arrives at Port Jackson

July
22 Flinders and Murray leave to explore and chart the northern coastline of Australia

26 The ship Hercules arrives with 121 convicts. During the voyage fourteen convicts were killed during a mutiny and thirty others died of sickness

September
17 The first properly assembled Masonic lodge in Australia is held by officers of Le Naturaliste

November
3 Flinders surveys the Gulf of Carpentaria

5 Francis Barrallier of the NSW Corps attempts to cross the Blue Mountains

23 Governor King sends Lieutenant Charles Robbins in the Cumberland to examine Bass Strait and to thwart any colonising attempts by the French

24 Flinders finds his ship, the Investigator, unfit to return to Port Jackson. After charting Arnhem Bay he sails for Timor to make repairs

December
13
Robbins hoists the British flag near Baudin's tents on King Island and fires a volley over them