there are no soldiers or War posters visible
The buildings on the left of the photo laying along the south bank of the Yarra belonged to James Edwards & Sons
especially looking down the footpath on the right hand side
We have reorientated an image of it with North pointing upwards
with City buildings and church spires in distance
1802 Matthew Flinders Map of Port Phillip Easyflow there are no soldiers orIn 1802, Matthew Flinders, on the Investigator, was charting the southern coastline of Australia, when he entered an immense bay, which we now know as Port Phillip Bay. Just 10 weeks earlier, acting Lieutenant John Murray commanding HMS Lady Nelson entered the Bay on the 14th February 1802 and named it Port King in honour of the Governor of New South Wales at the time, Philip Gidley King. On 4 September 1805, King formally renamed it Port Phillip, in