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The rattlesnake A voyage of discovery to the coral sea

Australia's spectacular Great Barrier Reef was a graveyard for shipping. HMS Rattlesnake, an ageing British warship, was commissioned in 1846 to survey this magnificent 'Coral Sea' and to produce the first detailed chart of the New Guinea coast. Every reef, every shoal, every rock haz...

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Main Author: Goodman, Jordan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Faber and Faber Limited 2005
Subjects:
Stanley, Owen.
Huxley, Thomas Henry, > 1825-1895.
MacGillivray, William, > 1796-1852.
Rattlesnake (Frigate)
Topographical surveying > Australia > Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) > History > 19th century
Scientific expeditions > Australia > Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) > History > 19th century.
Scientific expeditions > Coral Sea > History > 19th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • London, 1846
  • Portsmouth, 1846
  • A taste of the tropics: Madeira and Rio de Janeiro, 1847
  • The bullion run: Cape colony and Mauritius, 1847
  • Australia Felix: Hobart, Sydney and Twofold Bay,1847
  • Not waltzes and polkas: The great and barrier reef, 1847 $ 1848
  • Edmund Kennedy and Cape York, 1848
  • The Cape, the Furnace and Cockroaches, 1848 & 1849
  • Tristes Tropiques: The Louisiade Archipelago and New Guinnea, 1849
  • A white woman and Darnley Island, 1845 & 1850
  • Death of a Captain: Sydney, 1850
  • Genting Home, 1850

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