THE WESSEL ISLANDS

This is the front page for a cluster covering expeditions and key stories from these islands which were first though to be a single island but Dutch mariners and named Wesel Island for the ship Wesel and subsequently visited by Mathew Flinders who charted the area and perpetuated the name on former charts which recall the City of Wesel on the Rhine.

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Detail of Flinders Chart - Voyage to Terra Australis

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