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Born: Established: 1791 Norfolk Island, Australian External Territories, ; Died: Ceased: 1856
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Phillip Parker King was the son of Philip Gidley King, lieutenant-governor of Norfolk Island. He was a nautical surveyor and explored the north-western coast of Australia. He wrote about his experience in Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia (1826). In 1932 he returned to the colony as a landowner and later became resident commissioner of the Australian Agricultural Company. (Source: Oxford Companion to Australian Literature)

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  • Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia (1826), Volume One and Volume Two, have been produced as etexts for Project Gutenberg in HTML with images. See copyright information on site for any usage restrictions.
  • See the Australian Dictionary of Biography entry for Phillip Parker King
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