On September 17, 1819 Philip Parker King on the survey cutter HMS Mermaid, who was mapping the entire north Australian coastline, had landed at Lacrosse Island, from where he noticed a "deep opening" to the south.
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The HMS Mermaid spends many days during which King discovered, mapped and named the Cambridge Gulf, of which historians tell us was named after the Duke of Cambridge.