Sutherland Point

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Sutherland Point (33°59′S, 151°13′E[1]) is the headland at the eastern end of Kurnell beach inside Botany Bay, Australia.

[edit] Forby Sutherland

The point was named Point Sutherland by Captain Cook, for crewman Forby Sutherland. Sutherland was an able seaman and also the ship's poulterer (which meant he prepared game birds for the table, including for instance those shot by Joseph Banks and Lieutenant Gore).[2]

He died of consumption on the evening of 30 April 1770 while the ship was anchored in the Bay, and was buried ashore at Kurnell the following morning.[3] He had been afflicted by that condition ever since leaving the Straight le Marie,[4] He was the first European to die in New South Wales.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Sutherland Point page at Geoscience Australia
  2. ^ Ray Parkin, H. M. Bark Endeavour, Miegunyah Press, second edition 2003, ISBN 0-522-85093-6
  3. ^ Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World, available at Project Gutenberg.
  4. ^ Journal of Master's Mate Richard Pickersgill, reproduced in Parkin above