In six days Flinders climbs Arthurs Seat, lands at Mornington and Indented Head, crosses Corio Bay to climb the You Yangs and examines Swan Bay and Queenscliff.ДЄcting-Lieutenant Charles Robbins, surveyor-general Charles Grimes and gardener James Flemming sail around Port Phillip Bay and along sections of the Maribyrnong and Yarra Rivers.

His survey of Port Phillip is the first detailed examination of the bay and surrounding country. Matthew Flinders continuesВ in an easterly direction, reachingВ Port Phillip in the Investigator in April, six weeks after the departure of Lieutenant Murray. In March, French explorer Nicolas Baudin sights Wilson's Promontory in his vessel, Geographe.В On 29 March, he leaves Wilson's Promontory and continues westwardsВ toВ surveyВ the southern coast of New Holland as part of aВ major scientific expedition ordered by then First Consul, Napoleon Bonaparte.В Baudin charts coastline from Cape Otway to what is now known as Encounter Bay (SA), where he encounters Matthew Flinders, before continuing westwards. Grant returns in March to investigate the coastline between Cape Otway and Wilson's Promontory andВ survey Western Port.ДЄfter surveying Western Port in December 1801, Lieutenant John Murray, aboard the Lady Nelson, enters Port Phillip BayВ on 14 February 1802, explores Corio Bay and formally takes possession of the area for Britain. Between Cape Otway and Wilson's Promontory the Lady Nelson crosses the bight that leads to Port Phillip but Grant does not detect the entrance to the harbour. In late December Captain James Grant in the Lady NelsonВ examines the coast of what is now Victoria sighting and naming such features as Portland Bay, Cape Albany Otway and Cape Schanck. George Bass sails through Bass Strait and sighted the coast around Wilson's Promontory and Western Port Bay. The continent of Australia is first sighted by the crew on Captain James Cook's Endeavour voyage at Point Hicks, located in the far east of Victoria between Bemm River and Mallacoota. Victoria is home to many indigenous nations who had inhabited the land for thousands of years prior to European discovery and settlement.

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