On Kangaroo Island The fledgling settlement on Kangaroo Island is now into its third week and it is not a happy place. Samuel Stephens and Captains Morgan and Ross are increasingly anxious about their…
Your search for 'whaling' found:
Weekly Posts related to: whaling
Week 11 – ‘dangers stand thick all around’

At long last fair conditions prevail for the travelers and they make good progress. But danger still stalks the Duke of York. Lucy Beare becomes dangerously ill and almost dies. Reading…
[ Read the full post for: Week 11 – ‘dangers stand thick all around’ ]
Week 10 A Whale Of A Time

We hear from Captain Martin on the John Pirie again this week as he sights a whale in the grey of the evening. The whale is about three miles away and is spouting water to a great height in the air. This week we will think about how humans have shared the ocean and interacted […]
[ Read the full post for: Week 10 A Whale Of A Time ]
[meteor_slideshow slideshow="sidebar-public" metadata="height: 177, width: 280"]
View journal extracts by ship:
View journal extracts by person:
Alexander Dawsey
Arthur William Gliddon
Boyle Travers Finniss
Captain Collet Barker
Captain George Martin
Captain John Finlay Duff
Captain John Jones
Captain John Nelson
Captain John Rolls
Captain Robert Morgan
Captain Robert Ross
Captain Whiteman Freeman
Charles Mann
Charles S Hare
Dr Charles Everard
Dr John Woodforde
Edward Gibbon Wakefield
George Fife Angas
George Glansford
George Kingston
George Stevenson
Governor Hindmarsh
Harriet Gouger
Henry Wallan
James Hurtle Fisher
John Brown
John Day
John Michael Skipper
John Morphett
John Pirie journal writer
John White
Joseph and James Jones
Mary Thomas
Robert Gouger
Robert Thomas
Robert Torrens
Rosina Ferguson
Samuel Stephens
The Beare family
The Chandler family
The Powell family
William Deacon
William Light
William Pullen
Young Bingham Hutchinson
Recent Comments