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unusual facts about Philip Parker King



Cambridge Gulf

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.

Charnley River Station

The two and have gone on to be botanists specializing the in Kimberley region and even rediscovered a species of Auranticarpa collected during the expedition of Philip Parker King in 1821 that was thought to be extinct.


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