TitleView of Port Lincoln in 1802Date taken1802Description
Postcard on which an etching, identified as 'Port Lincoln in 1802', is printed. It features an Aboriginal wurley in the foreground with the water in the distance.
Nineteen-year-old English landscape artist William Westall was approached by Sir Joseph Banks about joining Matthew Flinders expedition to circumnavigate Australia in 1800. Arriving in what is now Port Lincoln in 1802 (which Flinders named for his home Lincolnshire) Westall made several sketches. One of these he later produced as an engraving, on which this early twentieth-century postcard image was based.
The French expedition subsequently named the natural harbour 'Port Champagny' after French admiral and politician, Jean-Baptiste de Nompere de Champagny. However, Matthew Flinders' earlier name became the official one.
