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Layer Id 1353 Name Humanitarians in the Antipodes: Macquarie Harbour
Description

A visualisation of the investigative tours of British Quakers, James Backhouse and George Washington Walker, who were 'travelling under concern' in the Southern oceans in 1830s. This section relates to their inspection of the Macquarie Harbour Penal Station in Tasmania.

 Subject Keywords colonialism, religious society of friends, quakers, colonial history, james backhouse, george washington walker, transnational human rights activism
Type Journey Creator Penny Edmonds
Contact penny.edmonds@flinders.edu.au Source Url https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Temporal From 1832-05-10 Temporal To 1832-06-22
Created At 2024-06-18 17:33:31 Updated At 2024-06-18 17:33:53
Ghap Url https://tlcmap.org/layers/1353
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Total Places
9 -
Area
10034.795194752 km2
Convex Hull
POLYGON((145.9197484 -43.33321812,145.1564057 -42.17000238,147.350207 -42.88384318,145.9197484 -43.33321812)) -
Density
0.00089687929103996 places/km2
Centroid
POINT(145.62636363333337 -42.48593655111111) -
Bounding Box
POLYGON((145.1564057 -43.33321812,145.1564057 -42.17000238,147.350207 -42.17000238,147.350207 -43.33321812,145.1564057 -43.33321812)) -
Most Central Place
Backhouse interviewed the steward on board the Tamar who had been 'transported when 14 years old' and found that he 'attributed his early turpitude, to the influence of had company, which led him to use strong drink and disobey his father, and to practice many other evils'. He had been transported for robbery and though 'he had forsaken his evil ways' he still 'felt keenly the bitter consequences of his former vices, for which he was still in bondage'. -
Most Distant Place from center
On the Tamar sailing from Sullivans Cove to Macquarie Harbour with Backhouse and Walker were, ‘John Burn, the captain for the voyage, Henry Herberg, the mate, David Hoy, a ship's carpenter, Jno. A. Manton’ along with 10 ‘private soldiers and a sergeant, as guard’, 2 soldiers' wives with 5 children, 12 seamen ‘several of whom were convicts’, and 18 ‘prisoners under sentence to the Penal Settlement’. -
Distribution
  • Average Distance from Centroid: 51.283776049337
  • Average Distance from Centroid / Area of Convex Hull: 0.0051105951894424
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Start Date
1832-05-10 -
End Date
1832-06-22 -
Duration
0.12 years
Median Date
1832-06-21 -
Average Date
1832-06-10 -