Edmund Lockyer
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Edmund Lockyer was a British soldier and explorer of Australia.
Edmund Lockyer in uniform of Captain of the Sydney Volunteer Rifle Corps
Replica of the brig Amity.
King George Sound
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King George Sound is a sound on the south coast of Western Australia. Named "King George the Third's Sound" by George Vancouver in 1791, it was referred to as "King George's Sound" from 1805. The name
Edmund Lockyer
…report to Governor Brisbane. In late 1826, Lockyer led an expedition to claim Western Australia for Britain. He sailed on the brig Amity, arriving at King George Sound on 25 December, with twenty troops and twenty three convicts. This was the beginning of the first European settlement in Western Australia. On 21 January…
Phillip Parker King's 1818 sketch of Oyster Harbour
King George's Sound, view from the north-west, pencil and wash by William Westall in 1801
Whalers Beach looking out into King George Sound toward Michaelmas island taken from Vancouver Peninsula
King George's Sound, view from Peak Head, by Westall