Sir Charles Hardy Islands
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Sir Charles Hardy Islands is in the reef of the same name adjacent to Pollard Channel & Blackwood Channel about 40 km east of Cape Grenville off Cape York Peninsula.
William D'Oyly being taken care of by a native named Oby. Illustration from The tragedy of the seas (1848).
Endeavour replica in Cooktown harbour
HMVS Victoria (1855)
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HMVS Victoria was a 580-ton combined steam/sail sloop-of-war built in England in the 1850s for the colony of Victoria, Australia.
Her Majesty's Colonial Steam Sloop Victoria, dressed for the visit of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh in 1867