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| Layer Id | 718 | Name | Humanitarians in the Antipodes: Voyage to Bass Strait |
| 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. |
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 | 1832-09-23 |
| Temporal To | 1832-10-20 | Created At | 2023-10-29 17:23:45 |
| Updated At | 2024-03-30 18:27:13 | Ghap Url | https://tlcmap.org/layers/718 |
| Statistic | Value | Unit |
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Total Places
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82 | - |
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Area
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68259.413953677 | km2 |
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Convex Hull
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POLYGON((148.0104781 -43.25310792,147.7958065 -43.24606476,147.3523351 -43.06417502,144.6849701 -40.68291812,144.7787042 -40.6265787,147.8737417 -40.01704571,148.0503667 -39.98323395,148.2997374 -40.2753145,148.3964847 -41.43001048,148.0104781 -43.25310792)) | - |
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Density
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0.0012012995021558 | places/km2 |
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Centroid
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POINT(147.5074273829269 -40.90394824853657) | - |
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Bounding Box
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POLYGON((144.6849701 -43.25310792,144.6849701 -39.98323395,148.3964847 -39.98323395,148.3964847 -43.25310792,144.6849701 -43.25310792)) | - |
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Most Central Place
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They 'put out to sea, but made little progress', stopping by Barren Joey and Twenty-day Islands. | - |
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Most Distant Place from center
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Near Cape Pillar the cutter Charlotte 'fell in with the barque Bolina, of London, on her passage from New Zealand'. | - |
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Distribution
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kilometers |
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Start Date
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1830-11-04 | - |
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End Date
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1834-01-08 | - |
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Duration
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3.18 | years |
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Median Date
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1832-10-14 | - |
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Average Date
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1832-12-01 | - |