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Bronze Plaque [B 7227] • Photograph

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Summary

Bronze plaque attached to the Flinders Monument, Stamford Hill in 1934. The plaque states " This place from which the Gulf and its shores were first surveyed on 26 February 1802 by Matthew Flinders, RN Commander of HMS 'Investigator'. The discovery of the country now called South Australia was set apart on 12 January, 1841 with the sanction of Lt. Col. Gawler KH, then the Governor of the Colony and in the first year of the Government of Captain G Grey. Adorned with this monument to the perpetual memory of the illustrious navigator His Honored Commander by John Franklin, Captain RN KCM. KR. Lt. Governor of Van Diemen's Land".

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Physical description

Photograph; 13.9 cm x 7.7 cm

Dates / Publication details

1934

Collection

Part of Stamford Hill Collection

Subject

Flinders, Matthew, 1774-1814 -- Monuments
Monuments -- South Australia -- Stamford Hill
Monuments -- South Australia -- Port Lincoln

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Digitisation information

Date

11/10/2005

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

2,188 x 3,455 pixels (7.6 MP)

Size

7.59 MB

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