Port Essington adalah sebuah situs bersejarah di Semenanjung Cobourg, Taman Nasional Garig Gunak Barlu, Australia Utara. Pada zaman kolonial, tempat ini dicoba dijadikan sebuah pemukiman baru, tetapi upaya tersebut gagal dan situs ini kini hanya berbentuk sisa dan reruntuhan saja. Pemukiman kolonial Port Essington didirikan pada 1838 oleh Sir J. Gordon Bremer[1] dengan nama resmi Victoria Settlement. Awalnya pemukiman tersebut terdiri dari 24 rumah, sebuah rumah sakit, dan pelabuhan yang ada di dekatnya.[2] Kondisi yang buruk menyebabkan pemukiman tersebut akhirnya ditinggalkan pada 1849.
Referensi
- ↑ Ritchie, G.S. (1967). The Admiralty Chart. London: Hollis & Carter. hlm. 288.
- ↑ Barrow, John (1839). "On the Recent Establishment at Port Essington, on the Northern Coast of Australia. Extract from a letter of Captain Sir J. Gordon Bremer". Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. 9: 499–501.
Bacaan lanjutan
- Cobourg Peninsular historic sites: Gurig National Park. Darwin, N.T. Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory. 1999–2000. 7 volumes
v. 1. Cobourg Peninsular historic sites conservation plan – v. 2. Executive summary – v. 3. Raffles Bay heritage precinct – v. 4. Victoria Settlement heritage precinct – v. 5. Port Essington heritage precinct – v. 6. Cape Don Lighthouse complex – v. 7. Cobourg Peninsular historic sites original reference documentation. Record at the National Library of Australia - Alan Powell, World's End: British military outposts in the ring fence around Australia, Melbourne University Press, 2016.
- Jim Allen, Port Essington: The historical archaeology of a north Australian nineteenth-century outpost, Sydney University Press in association with the Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology, 2008; ISBN9781920898878. A typescript of the 1969 thesis on which this book is based is available at the Australian National University's Open Research Library Diarsipkan 2020-02-28 di Wayback Machine
- Mark McKenna, From the Edge: Australia's lost histories, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2016.
- Peter G. Spillett, Forsaken settlement : an illustrated history of the settlement of Victoria, Port Essington, North Australia, 1838-1849
