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Verslag eener reis van den Nederlandschen Consul-General te Melbourne

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Title
Verslag eener reis van den Nederlandschen Consul-General te Melbourne
Subject
Manuscripts, Dutch
Consuls
Shipping
New South Wales
Queensland
South Australia
Papua New Guinea
Australia--Torres Strait Islands (Qld.)
Authors, Dutch
Voyages and travels
Economic conditions
Economic development
Category
1. Settlement
Author
Amstel, Jan Willem Ploos van
Chester, Henry Marjoribanks
Place of Publication
Batavia
Person
Jan Willem
Current holder
State Library of New South Wales
National Library of Australia
Period of reference
July 1871 – October 1871
Date
July 1, 1871
Link
https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKP0rBdXbl
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/1085131
Series number
Q980.1/A
Item number
74VKP0rBdXbl
Access rights
Request at location
Rights
Out of Copyright
Country of origin
Indonesia
Place
Melbourne
Language
Dutch
Description from source
Full title: Verslag eener reis van den Nederlandschen Consul-General te Melbourne, aan boord van Zr. Ms. stoomschip Curacao, langs de oost- en noordkust van Australie, in Julij-October, 1871.
114p. ; 27cm.
I. Verslag aangaande de kolonie Nieuw Zuid-Wallis
II. Verslag aangaande de kolonie Queensland
III. Verslag aangaande het noordelijk grondgebied der kolonie Zuid-Australie
IV. Verslag aangaande Nieuw Guinea en Torrestraat
V. Reisverhalen / van Henry M. Chester ; vertaald door J. Batten.

Reports concerning New South Wales, Queensland, the northern territory of South Australia (which then incorporated the Northern Territory), New Guinea and the Torres Strait by J.W. Ploos van Amstel, Consul-General of the Netherlands for Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania. Ploos van Amstel's accounts are signed Cardwell [North Queensland]; Sweers Island [Gulf of Carpenteria]; Port Darwin, 1871. He travelled on board the steamship Curaçao and strongly recommended the establishment of a new steamboat line between Australia and the Dutch East Indies. The publication also includes a Dutch translation of an account of the travels of Henry Majoribanks Chester (signed Somerset [on the northern tip of Cape York Peninsula], 1871). It was written after Chester had resigned, and before he resumed serving as police magistrate in 1875, and therefore probably contains different content to his later Narrative of Expeditions to New Guinea (1878).
Physical format
Books
Related resources
https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/888487
Date accessed
September 21, 2022