Port Phillip map showing Wedge's explorations
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Wedge, Thomson and William Buckley – Investigator Vol 2 No 2

This is the seventh instalment of the Investigator’s series ‘The Story of Geelong’, published in May 1967. Using John Wedge’s journals and a subsequent map of his explorations the writer takes the reader along on (more…)

Port Phillip Bay as depicted by Hume & Hovell
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Hume and Hovell – Investigator Vol 1 No 5

Hume and Hovell The fifth instalment of The Story of Geelong was published in the Investigator magazine during November 1966. It covers the overland exploration undertaken by Hume & Hovell during 1824 and it provides (more…)

Port Phillip map based on Tuckey's survey
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Collins and the Sullivan Bay Settlement – Investigator Vol 1 No 4

David Collins and the Sullivan Bay Settlement In the fourth issue of Investigator magazine in 1966, the Story of Geelong featured an account of the ill-fated settlement at Sullivan Bay in 1803. The article focused (more…)

Flinders in the Investigator – Investigator Vol 1 No 2
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Flinders in the Investigator – Investigator Vol 1 No 2

Flinders in the Investigator. This article on Matthew Flinders was the second in a series called ‘The Story of Geelong’ and originally published in the first volume of the Geelong Historical Society’s magazine ‘Investigator’. It (more…)

Port Phillip Map based on Lt. Murray's exploration in1802
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Murray in the Lady Nelson – Investigator Vol 1 No 1

The Story of Geelong. The first edition of Investigator, the Geelong Historical Society magazine, was published in September of 1965 and it included a series of articles it described as ‘the story of Geelong’. The (more…)

ROBERT MUIRHEAD – Investigator December 2021
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ROBERT MUIRHEAD – Investigator December 2021

of Yarram Yarram and Osborne House By Daryl Wight Robert Muirhead (1813? – 1862), shepherd and squatter, was born in Stirlingshire, Scotland, son of John Muirhead.  He was already ‘accustomed … to the management of sheep’ (more…)