Territory Stories

Fort Dundas : first settlement in Northern Australia

Details:

Title

Fort Dundas : first settlement in Northern Australia,

Other title

prepared by Richard Woolfe,

Creator

Woolfe, Richard,

Collection

E-Publications, E-Books, PublicationNT,

Date

2001-11-07,

Location

Fort Dundas,

Description

"In 1824 the British landed in northern Australia, ready to defend it against the French or the Dutch. They found a hard country, ungiving and unforgiving. The settlers built a fort and a settlement they named Fort Dundas, after the First Lord of the Admiralty. This report uses GIS to examine the defence network set up at Fort Dundas. The project found that, although the [sic] Fort Dundas eventually failed, the artillery strategy proved effective in the settlement's defence." -- Abstract., Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).,

Notes

Cover title. Prepared by Richard Woolfe for Final report for SES440.,

Table of contents

Abstract -- Introduction -- Archaeological signigicance -- Project aims -- Literature review -- Resources used -- Methodology -- Results and discussion -- Error and error minimisation -- Conclusions -- List of maps -- Appendices.,

Language

English,

Subject

Northern Territory -- History,

Publisher name

Richard Woolfe,

Place of publication

Darwin,

Format

28 p. : ill., map ; 30 cm.,

File type

application/pdf.,

Copyright owner

Check within Publication or with content Publisher.,

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/230295,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/671202