Phillip Parker King - meteorological and tide notebooks kept on HMS Adventure, 20 Nov. 1826-6 April...
Phillip Parker King - meteorological and tide notebooks kept on HMS Adventure, 20 Nov. 1826-6 April 1829
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Author / Creator
Date
Nov. 1826-April 1829
Call Numbers
MLMSS 7166
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Physical Description
Contents
1 box - 0.05 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript)
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Collection
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Issue Copy
Microfilm : CY 4220 (MLMSS 7166)
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Scope and Contents
Contents
2 Feb. to 16 Aug. 1828; Bound volume containing five notebooks in which King recorded air and water temperature, barometric pressure, wind direction and force, and remarks on the weather, while the Adventure was at Port Famine (now Puerto del Hambre, Chile). Modern binding by D.S. Murray, Sydney; bookplate of G.&N. Ingleton adhered inside front c...
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Full title
Phillip Parker King - meteorological and tide notebooks kept on HMS Adventure, 20 Nov. 1826-6 April 1829
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Author / Creator
Contextual Information
Source
Acquired from Maggs Bros Ltd, London, in 2002
Administrative / Biographical history
Phillip Parker King was born in 1791, the son of Philip Gidley King, third Governor of NSW. He entered the Royal Navy in 1807 and was promoted lieutenant in 1814. From 1817 to 1821 he conducted a survey of the Australian coast. By 1824 he was considered to be one of Britain's leading hydrographers and in that year he was made a fellow of the Royal...
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Call Numbers
MLMSS 7166
Record Identifier
nV2qRoZn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nV2qRoZn
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Reference code
421449
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