Phillip Parker King

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Philip Parker King
The journeys of King

The Admiral of the British Royal Navy Phillip Parker King , (born December 13, 1791 on Norfolk Island , † February 26, 1856 in North Sydney ) made several voyages of discovery on the coast of Australia .

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He was the son of Philip Gidley King and Anna Josepha King and named after his father's mentor, Arthur Phillip . He was sent to England for education in 1796 and joined the Royal Navy in 1807. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1814.

He was tasked with exploring parts of the Australian coast that had not been explored by Matthew Flinders . King made four trips to this end between December 1817 and April 1822.

The first three expeditions were carried out on the cutter HMS Mermaid . Since this ship ran aground in 1820, the sloop HMS Bathurst was used for the fourth voyage . On his first trip, Bungaree accompanied him as an interpreter and mediator, an elder of the Aborigines .

He also traveled to Bass Strait and Tasmania to survey .

In July 1821 he was promoted to commander . In April 1823 he returned to England and then commanded the exploration ship HMS Adventure . Together with the HMS Beagle, she spent five years exploring the fragmented coastline around the Strait of Magellan . The result was presented in 1831 at a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society , of which King himself was a member.

Honors

Robert Brown named the genus Kingia from the Dasypogonaceae family after him and Philip Gidley King in 1826 . The Australian orchid Dendrobium kingianum was also named after him. The King Point in Antarctica as well as he discovered King Sound in Australia bear his name.

He was honored with a £ 2 postage stamp in Australia in 1963.

Works

  • Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of HM Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America . Edited by Robert Fitzroy . 3 vol. And 1 vol. "Appendix". Henry Colburn, London 1839

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  • Ian Dear, Peter Kemp (Ed.): The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea . 2nd ed. University Press, Oxford 2006, ISBN 978-0-19-920568-4 , p. 450.

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