Broughton Island (New South Wales)

Broughton Island is an island north east of Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia.^[1] It was seen by James Cook commanding HM Bark Endeavour on 11 May 1770: he mistook it for a headland and called it Black Head.^[2] After its insularity was discovered, it was re-named Broughton Islands, and so appears on the 1852 Admiralty chart, Australia, East Coast. Broken Bay to Sugarloaf Point, from a running survey by Captn. J. Lort Stokes, H.M.S. Acheron, 1851. Providence Bay also appears for the first time on this chart. The nearby Port Stephens was surveyed by Commander William Broughton in HMS Providence in April 1795.^[3] Stokes appears to have named the island and bay after Broughton and his ship.^[4]

Mutton bird nest on the island, which is part of the Myall Lakes National Park.

In November 2009, the National Parks and Wildlife Service declared the island free from rabbits and rats.[1]

References

^ John Clarke, Broughton Islanders, [Boat Harbour, N.S.W.], Veranu Pty. Ltd., 2009
^ James Cook, The Voyage of The Endeavour, 1768-1771, edited by J. C. Beaglehole, Cambridge, Hakluyt Society, 1968, pp.12-14, 314.
^ Andrew David (ed.), William Robert Broughton's Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific 1795-1798, Introduction by Barry M. Gough, Hakluyt Society 3rd series, no.22, London, Ashgate, 2010, Introduction, p.v. ISBN 0904180972.
^ Journal of Captain John Lort Stokes, HMS Acheron, on the surveying voyage from Plymouth to New Zealand, 1848 to 1851, transcribed by Sheila Natusch, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, MRF/113. See also George Albert Hansard's journal of the voyage of the Acheron, transcribed by Sheila Natusch, Hocken Library, University of Otago, Dunedin, MS-0968.

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