Flinders Journal – 1 December

Wednesday 1 December, 1802 Gulf of Carpentaria; Cape Van Diemen "On the 1st of December we got under way, and passed the reef at the south-east end of Sweers' Island. ... At noon, the land was distant six or seven miles, and appeared to be the inner part of that great projection of the main, represented in the old chart under the name of Cape Van Diemen; but the rocky nature of the shore and unevenness of the surface were so different from the sandy uniformity of the continent, that I much doubted of its connexion." (P151)

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