Phillip Parker King had surveyed the recently…
January 1820 CE
Phillip Parker King had surveyed the recently discovered Macquarie Harbour in Van Diemen's Land in December 1818 and January 1819, and sails in May 1819 for Torres Strait.
He had taken John Oxley as far as the Hastings River, and had continued on to survey the coast between Cape Wessel and Admiralty Gulf.
King returns to Sydney on January 12, 1820.