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John Oxley - Moreton Bay - November/December 1823 - 5th December

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John Oxley - Moreton Bay - November/December 1823
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Calm and clear. Took the following bearings to determine the entrance of the river.

Point A up, 217 1/2*.

Extreme of the point of mainland opposite starboard channel from 15 to 20 chains wide, shoal one mile from point to point: 212 1/2* to 87*. South extreme of Inner Concealment Island, two and a-quarter miles: 87*. North extreme of Inner Concealment Island, one and a-half miles; This small island connected with it by dry sand shoal: 33*.

North extreme of North Concealment Island, distant about two and three-qurater miles:22*.

Point Uniack, being the west point two miles of entrance and east point of a low mangrove island close to sand spit: 3*. West extreme of [that island], three-quarter mile long; 356*.

West point of low mangrove island, 278* one mile.



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