Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836. Volume I. Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830

by Robert Fitzroy; Philip Parker King

STRAIT OF MAGALHAENS,

INCLUDING

THE COCKBURN AND BARBARA CHANNELS, AND THE OTWAY AND SKYRING WATERS.

Coast, &c.	Name of		Latitude South.	Longitude West.	Variat East.	Tide.
	Place.	Particular Spot.				H. W. at F. & C.	Direction of Flood, and Rise of Tide.
			° ′ ″	° ′ ″	° ′	H. M.
East Entrance	Cape Virgins	S.E. extreme.	52 18 35	68 16 55 C. 68 17 46	22 30		Northward.
	Dungeness	Extremity	52 22 40	68 21 50
	Mount Dinero	Summit	52 18 25	68 30 00
Possession Bay	Cape Possession	Centre of Cliff	52 16 35	68 53 35
	Mount Aymond	Summit	52 06 35	69 30 30
	Cape Orange	Peak on the S. side of the entrance of the first Narrow	52 28 10	69 26 05		H. W. about 3 0, but the tide begins to set to the N.E. at noon.	36 feet.
	C. Espiritu Santo	Summit 5 miles inland	52 42 30	68 40 51
Eastern part (2d Narrow to Port Famine)	Cape Gregory	Extremity	52 38 18	70 09 50
	——	Bush on summit of land	52 38 03	C. 70 09 51	23 34
	Elizabeth Island	North-east bluff.	52 49 18	C. 70 33 25
	Oazy Harbour	Entrance	52 42 20	70 31 06
	Pecket Harb.	Beach opposite the anchorage outside.	52 46 45	70 40 31	23 49	12 0
	Cape Negro	South-east extreme	52 56 44	C. 70 45 30
	Sandy Point	Extremity	53 09 00	70 49 31
	Point St. Mary	——	53 21 40	70 54 01 C. 70 53 26	23 26
	Rocky Point	——	53 35 18	70 51 58
	Port Famine	Observatory	53 38 12	C. 70 54 01	23 30	12 0	South. 5 or 6 ft.
	——	Point Santa Anna	53 37 55	70 51 19
	Cape Monmouth	Extremity	53 23 30	70 24 01
	Point Boqueron	——	53 28 35	70 12 01
	Cape St Valentyn	Summit at extreme	53 33 30	70 30 01
	Nose Peak	Summit	53 32 30	70 01 36
Admiralty Sound	Port Cooke	Rivulet in the Bay	54 17 10	69 58 01
	Latitude Point	Extremity	54 16 45	69 50 51
	Bottom of Admiralty Sound	Summit of Mount Hope	54 26 30	68 59 11
	Curious Peak	Summit	54 19 35	70 08 31
East Coast of Dawson Island	Mount Seymour	Summit	54 19 05	69 46 36
	Ainsworth Harb.	Project point on W. side	54 23 00	69 34 01
	Parry Harbour	Outer point on W. side	54 25 20	69 16 31
	Card Point	Point	54 21 00	69 12 01
	Willes Bay	Islet in Ph. Gidley Cove	53 48 15	70 31 46
	Cannon Point	Extremity	54 03 47	70 25 31
	Soapsuds Cove	Rivulet	54 16 28	70 13 46
	Sharp Peak	Summit	54 06 50	70 23 01
	Cape Expectation	South Extremity, or trend at entrance of Gabriel Channel	54 19 00	70 15 21
Gabriel Channel	Port Waterfall	Port	54 20 20	69 19 01
	Nar. of Gabriel C.	Midway	54 15 08	69 32 31
	Cone Point	Summit	54 06 35	70 48 01
Dawson Island	Mount Graves	South summit	53 45 00	70 33 46
	St. Peter and St. Paul Islet	Centre	53 42 10	70 42 01
	Port San Antonio	Humming Bird Cove	53 53 52 53 54 25	70 50 26
	——	S.W. pt of North Island	53 54 03	70 51 51
Coast from Pt. Famine to C. Froward	Mount Tarn	Peak at North end	53 45 06	70 58 26
	Cape San Isidro	Extremity	53 47 00	70 55 03	23 30	1 0	8 feet Southw.
	C. Remarquable	Extremity	53 49 25	71 00 31
	Nassau Island	South-east point	53 50 23	71 00 56
	St. Nicholas Bay	Islet in the centre	53 50 38	71 03 13		2 6
Cape Froward to the Jerome Channel, and North shore of Clarence Island	Cape Froward	Summit of the Morro	53 53 43	71 14 31		1 0	N.E.
	Cape Holland	S. point of Wood Bay	53 48 33	71 35 41
	Bougainville Sugar Loaf	Summit of Peak	53 57 32	71 24 13
	Cascade Harb.	Small rock in Harbour	53 57 48	71 27 46	24 18
	Cordes Bay	Outer-point West side	53 42 55	71 53 08
	Bell Bay	N.W. pt. Bradley Cove	53 53 15	71 47 16
	Cape Inglefield	Islet off it	53 50 20	71 51 41
	Cape Gallant	Extremity	53 42 11	71 59 01	24 35
	Port Gallant	Wigwam Point	53 41 43	C. 71 56 57	24 04	9 3	5 or 6 ft.
	Charles Island	Wallis Mark	53 43 57	72 02 00
	Rupert Island	Summit	53 42 00	72 08 00
	Monmouth Islands	Summit of largest island	53 39 40	72 08 39
	Point Elizabeth	Passage Point Reef	53 37 00	72 08 41
	Point York	Extremity	53 32 35
	Bachelor River	Entrance	53 33 00	C. 72 17 11	24 06	1 46
	Jerome Channel	Bluff extremity, or W. point of entrance	53 31 00	72 20 41
Crooked Reach	Cape Cross-tide	Extremity	53 33 03	72 22 16		At Borja Bay.
						1 50	6 feet
	El Morrion, or St. David Head	Extremity	53 33 20	72 28 31
	Cape Quod	Extremity	53 32 10	72 29 41
Long Reach	Snowy Sound	Centre of Ulloa Island	53 31 30	72 36 13
	Cape Notch	Extremity	53 25 00	72 45 11
	Playa Parda Cove	Anchorage	53 18 30	72 56 00		1 8
	Half-port Bay	Centre	53 11 36	C. 73 14 57
	Cape Monday	Extremity	53 09 12	73 18 16
Sea Reach	St. Anne Island	Centre	53 06 30	73 12 46
	Cape Upright	Extremity, North trend	53 04 03	73 32 16
	Cape Providence	——	52 59 00	73 31 00	23 22
	Cape Tamar	Observatory, Tamar Bay	52 55 06	C. 73 44 02	23 24	3 5	5 feet
	——	Extremity of Cape	52 55 30	73 44 26			Eastwd.
	Beaufort Bay	Stragglers, Southernmost	52 48 03	73 46 00
	Cape Phillip	Sholl Bay	52 44 05	C. 73 48 20
	——	Summit over the Cape	52 44 20	73 53 00
	Cape Parker	Station near it	52 41 49	C. 74 07 10
	Point Felix	Station on its East side	52 56 31
	——	Extremity	52 56 00	74 09 00
	Valentine Harb.	Mount (see Plan)	52 55 00	74 15 00		2 0
	Cape Cuevas	Extremity	52 53 19	74 17 30
	Cape Cortado	Extremity	52 49 37	74 22 56	23 40
	Westminst. Hall	Eastern summit	52 37 18	74 20 26
	Observation Mt.	——	52 28 58	C. 74 32 18	25 09	3 0
	Harbr. of Mercy	Observation Islet	52 44 57	C. 74 35 31	23 48	1 47 or 0 58	4 feet
	Cape Pillar	Extremity	52 42 53	C. 74 37 41		1 0
	Cape Victory	Extremity	52 16 10	C. 74 50 55
	Evangelists, or Isles of Direction	Sugar Loaf to South Eastward	52 24 18	75 02 56			Variable
Magdalen Channel	Vernal	Pinnacle on summit	54 06 28	70 57 40
	Anxious Point	Extremity	54 06 50	70 53 26
	Mount Boqueron	Centre pinnacle	54 10 40	70 56 00
	Labyrinth Islands	Summit of Jane Island	54 19 10	70 57 36
	Cape Turn	Extremity	54 24 08	71 04 00
	Warping Cove	——	54 24 08	C. 71 05 25	24 57
	Mnt. Sarmiento	N.E. peak (6800 feet)	54 27 00	70 47 30
Cockburn Channel	King Island	Summit	54 22 38	71 13 15			Westwd 6 or 8 ft.
	Prowse Islands	Station	54 22 13	71 20 57
	Park Bay	Beach on isthmus	54 19 00	71 15 00	24 56	0 30	6 or 7 ft.
	Bayne Islands	Cove at the N. end of of South-east island	54 18 15	71 35 50
	Eliza Bay	Centre	54 17 45	71 37 00
	Kirke Rocks	Body	54 22 30	71 42 30
	Enderby Island	Centre	54 13 00	71 53 31
Melville Sound	Mount Skyring	Summit (3000 feet)	54 24 44	72 07 40
	Tom Harbour	Cove near it	54 24 23	C. 72 02 07 72 02 31	25 19
	North Cove	Entrance	54 24 27	C. 72 14 51 72 14 30
	Fury Harbour	West Point	54 28 25	72 15 00
	West Furies	Body	54 34 30	72 17 00
	East Furies	Body	54 38 00	72 08 00
	Cape Schomberg	Summit over extremity	54 38 48	72 02 46
	Cape Kempe	Peaks over	54 23 30	72 26 46
	Copper Kettle	Summit	54 23 50	72 21 41
Barbara Channel	Bynoe Island	Centre	54 19 30	72 09 00
	Mortimer Island	Summit	54 18 12	72 16 00
	Hewett Bay	South point	54 15 30	72 16 51	24 0	0 30	6 or 7 ft. Southw.
	Brown Bay	Anchorage	54 12 20	72 16 00
	Bell Mount	Summit	54 09 54	72 11 51
	North Anchorage	——	54 09 25	C. 72 11 21	24 12
	Bedford Bay	Entrance	54 00 15	72 18 31	24 0	0 30	7 or 8 ft. Southw.
	Field Bay	Point Cairncross	53 51 06	72 16 31
	Cayetano Peak	Summit	53 53 04	72 06 00
	Shag Narrow	North end	53 51 24	72 10 31		0 0	[[208]]
	Dighton Bay	Latitude Beach	53 48 40	72 09 36
	Point Elvira	Extremity	53 49 12	72 00 11
	Cape Edgeworth	Extremity	53 47 03	72 05 16
Jerome Channel	Bachelor Peak	Northernmost	53 29 30	72 15 46
	Three Island Bay	Centre	53 28 30	72 20 20
	Real Cove	Centre	53 24 30	72 23 55
Indian Sound	Cutter Cove	Centre	53 21 45	72 23 20		4 0
	False Corona	Smallest islet	53 21 49	C. 72 28 55
Otway Water	Bennett Island	——	53 13 14	72 16 46
	Fanny Bay	Gidley islet at S. entrance	53 11 00	72 08 30		5 0
	Point Martin	——	53 07 00	C. 72 00 51 71 58 00	23 58	5 0
	Inglefield Island	North Point	53 04 20	C. 71 52 27 71 49 30	23 56	4 0
	Shell-note Point	Extremity	52 51 34	71 29 50
	Point Hall	Extremity	52 49 45	71 22 10		4 0	N.W.
Fitz-Roy Passage	Donkin Cove	Spot marked on Plan	52 45 30	C. 71 21 36 71 19 55	23 40
	Wigwam Cove	Do.	52 39 30	C. 71 25 20 71 24 10	23 34	Sets to East until 1 30
Skyring Water	Euston opening	Centre	52 52 40	72 18 00
	Dynevor Castle	Summit	52 34 30	72 28 40

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TABLE III.

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THE WESTERN COAST, AND INTERIOR SOUNDS,

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