Discoveries in Australia (Vol. 1&2)
With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H. M. S. BeagleBy John Lort Stokes
Length31h 15m
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Discoveries in Australia is a two volume account of the voyages of H. M. S. Beagle by the coasts of Australia, written by Admiral Stokes, an officer in the Royal Navy who served on the Beagle for close to eighteen years. The work covers the expedition by command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty which took place from 1837 to 1843 and provides accounts of exploring and surveying coasts and rivers of the continent. Travel reports are supplemented with records of new spices of fish, reptiles and insects. The book also contains a narrative of Captain Owen Stanley and his visits to the islands in the Arafura Sea.
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Length31 hrs 15 mins
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Publish dateApr 6, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Discoveries in Australia (Vol. 1&2)
21CHAPTER 2.1.
2INTRODUCTION.
22CHAPTER 2.2.
3CHAPTER 1.1. INTRODUCTION.
23CHAPTER 2.3. VICTORIA RIVER.
4CHAPTER 1.2. PLYMOUTH TO BAHIA.
24CHAPTER 2.4. VICTORIA RIVER TO SWAN RIVER.
5CHAPTER 1.3. FROM THE CAPE TO SWAN RIVER.
25CHAPTER 2.5.
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6CHAPTER 1.4. FROM SWAN RIVER TO ROEBUCK BAY.
26CHAPTER 2.6.
7CHAPTER 1.5. FROM ROEBUCK BAY TO SKELETON POINT.
27CHAPTER 2.7.
8CHAPTER 1.6. POINT CUNNINGHAM TO FITZROY RIVER.
28CHAPTER 2.8. GULF OF CARPENTARIA.
9CHAPTER 1.7. THE FITZROY RIVER TO PORT GEORGE THE FOURTH, AND RETURN TO SWAN RIVER.
29CHAPTER 2.9. GULF OF CARPENTARIA.
10CHAPTER 1.8. SWAN RIVER TO SYDNEY.
30CHAPTER 2.10. INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO.
11CHAPTER 1.9. BASS STRAIT.
31CHAPTER 2.11. PORT ESSINGTON AND THE NORTH-WEST COAST.
12CHAPTER 1.10. SYDNEY TO PORT ESSINGTON.
32CHAPTER 2.12.
13CHAPTER 1.11.
33CHAPTER 2.13. (pt. 1)
14CHAPTER 1.12.
34CHAPTER 2.13. (pt. 2)
15APPENDIX 1. LIST OF BIRDS, COLLECTED BY THE OFFICERS OF H.M.S. BEAGLE, DURING THE YEARS 1837 TO 1843.
35CHAPTER 2.14. AUSTRALIA TO ENGLAND.
16APPENDIX 2. DESCRIPTIONS OF SIX FISH TAKEN BY THE OFFICERS OF THE BEAGLE ON THE COASTS OF AUSTRALIA, BY SIR JOHN RICHARDSON, M.D. F.R.S., ETC. INSPECTOR OF NAVAL HOSPITALS.
36APPENDIX.
17APPENDIX 3. DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW AUSTRALIAN REPTILES. BY JOHN EDWARD GRAY, ESQUIRE, F.R.S., ETC.
37WINDS AND WEATHER ON THE WESTERN AND NORTHERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA. BY COMMANDER J.C. WICKHAM, R.N.
18APPENDIX 4. DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW OR UNFIGURED SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA FROM AUSTRALIA. BY ADAM WHITE, M.E.S. ASSISTANT IN THE ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT, BRITISH MUSEUM.
38ON THE NORTH-WEST COAST OF AUSTRALIA.
19APPENDIX 5. DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW OR IMPERFECTLY CHARACTERIZED LEPIDOPTERA FROM AUSTRALIA. BY EDWARD DOUBLEDAY, F.L.S. ASSISTANT IN THE ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
39ON THE NORTH COAST OF AUSTRALIA.
20JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY.
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