The British in North Australia 1824-29: Fort Dundas / Derek Pugh
- Bib ID:
- 7253518
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Pugh, Derek, author
- Description:
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- [Rapid Creek, Northern Territory] : Derek Pugh, [2017]
- xix, 200 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780992355869 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Fort Dundas was the first outpost of Europeans in Australia's north. It was a British fortification manned by soldiers, marines and convicts, and built by them on remote Melville Island in 1824. It lasted until February, 1829, when it was abandoned and left to the termites.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-194) and index.
- Subject:
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- Fortification -- Northern Territory -- Fort Dundas -- History
- Convicts -- Northern Territory -- Fort Dundas -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Melville Island -- Relations with British
- Tiwi (Australian people) -- Relations with British
- Settlement and contacts - Penal colonies / Convicts
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1788-1850
- Race relations - Violent
- Sites - Excavations
- Tiwi people (N20) (NT SC52-16)
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration -- History
- Fort Dundas (N.T.) -- Social conditions -- History
- Melville Island (N.T.) -- Social conditions -- History
- Fort Dundas (Melville Island NT SC52-16)
- Australian
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2017
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