Jansen, Gerrit— In command of the ZEEHAAN, and Abel Janz Tasman in the HEEMSKIRK, discovered Van Dieman's Land. Afterwards took possession of New Holland. 1642.
Jardine, A.—
Police Magistrate at Rockhampton; took command of the settlement at Cape
York, Somerset. 1863.
Jardine, Frank, and Alexander Jardine— Overland with cattle from Carpentaria Downs Stationthen the farthest occupied country to the north-west—to Somerset. Cross the head of the Batavia River, probably the first white men on it since the old Dutch visits. 1864-65.
Johnson, Lieutenant, R.N.—
In the cutter SNAPPER, sent in search of Captain Stewart Discovered the
Clyde River. 1820.
Kayzer, E. A.—
Second in charge, also surveyor and mineralogist, of the North-West
Expedition, led by W.O. Hodgkinson. 1876.
Kennedy, E. B.—
Led an expedition to decide final course of Mitchell's, Barcoo
(Victoria). Instead of finding on the Victoria a highway to the Gulf,
they lost it in marshes. Follow the Warrego through fine grazing country.
Named the Thompson. 1847.
Fatal venture up Cape York Peninsula. 1848.
Kindur, The— A mysterious river in the unknown interior, supposed to run north-west. A runaway convict, named Clarke, brought up the story first. He said he had heard of it from the natives, so determined to make his escape and follow it, to see if it would lead him to another country. He started on his adventurous trip and said he followed the river to the sea. When at the mouth of the river he ascended a hill, and seaward saw an island inhabited, the natives told him, by copper-coloured men, who came in their canoes to the mainland for scented wood. He introduced various details of large plains which he had crossed, and a large burning mountain, but as he saw no prospect of getting away from Australia, he returned. Surveyor Mitchell took charge of an expedition to investigate the truth of his story. 1831.
King, Captain Phillip P.— (Son of Governor King) In the MERMAID; sailed from Sydney accompanied by Mr. Allan Cunningham, botanist. His mission was to explore those portions of the coast left unvisited by previous navigators. Sailing by Cape Leeuwin, King examined the west and north-west coast, sailing from the north coast to Timor to refit. 1818. In 1819 he surveyed the lately-discovered Port Macquarie and visited Van Dieman's Land. Leaving Port Jackson, Captain King returned to the scene of his labours by way of the east coast, crossed the Gulf of Carpentaria and discovered Cambridge Gulf. In 1820 he left Port Jackson for his third voyage to the north coast; examined minutely the north-west coast. The MERMAID having sprung a leak, for the safety of the crew, Captain King had to return to Sydney. A brig was purchased, and rechristened the BATHURST. After surveying the north-west and west coast—and 'naming Dampier's Archipelago, Cygnet Bay, and Roebuck Bay, after Dampier and his vessels—he sailed to the Mauritius to refit. Returning to New Holland, he continued the survey of King George's Sound and the west coast. This concluded Captain King's fourth and last voyage round the Australian coast. 1817-20.
King, John— The only survivor of Burke and Wills' party. Rescued by Edwin J. Welch, second in command of A. W. Howitt's relief party. 1861.