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| Layer Id | 1360 | Name | Humanitarians in the Antipodes: Voyage to South Australia |
| 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 a visit to the recently proclaimed settler-colony of South Australia. |
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 |
| Language | English | Temporal From | 1837-11-20 |
| Temporal To | 1837-12-16 | Created At | 2024-06-25 20:36:14 |
| Updated At | 2024-06-25 20:36:29 | Ghap Url | https://tlcmap.org/layers/1360 |
| Statistic | Value | Unit |
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Total Places
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16 | - |
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Area
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76326.010006445 | km2 |
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Convex Hull
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POLYGON((143.6494161 -39.14734171,141.6377311 -38.48002881,136.6320806 -35.74094026,136.6175613 -35.53285559,138.5006466 -34.85853319,138.5976512 -34.91282667,143.6494161 -39.14734171)) | - |
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Density
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0.00020962709826767 | places/km2 |
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Centroid
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POINT(138.81992308125 -35.548777852499995) | - |
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Bounding Box
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POLYGON((136.6175613 -39.14734171,136.6175613 -34.85853319,143.6494161 -34.85853319,143.6494161 -39.14734171,136.6175613 -39.14734171)) | - |
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Most Central Place
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Backhouse noted that the 'opening into St. Vincents Gulf by the Backstairs Passage' was maked by 'two little islands, called The Pages' and that a 'vast numbers of sea fowl, and some Seals of a yellowish colour with black muzzles, were upon one of the two little islands'. | - |
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Most Distant Place from center
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From 20th November 1837 until the 23rd, the 'wind was adverse' so the ship Eudora 'beat backward and forward, between Kings Island and Cape Otway'. The ship 'tacked when about fifteen miles from its north coast, to avoid a reef, on which the convict vessel Minerva was lost about two years previously. | - |
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Distribution
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kilometers |
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Start Date
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1837-11-20 | - |
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End Date
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1837-12-16 | - |
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Duration
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0.07 | years |
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Median Date
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1837-12-01 | - |
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Average Date
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1837-12-02 | - |