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TABLET ON THE MEMORIAL ERECTED BY SIR JOHN
FRANKLIN AT PORT LINCOLN, S.A.[1]
- ↑ THIS PLACE from which the Gulf and its Shores were first surveyed on 26. Feb, 1802 by MATTHEW FLINDERS, R.N. Commander of H.M.S. Investigator the Discoverer of the Country now called South Australia was set apart on 12. Jan. 1841 with the sanction of LT. COL. GAWLER. K.H. then Governor of the Colony and in the first year of the government of CAPT. G. GREY adorned with this Monument to the perpetual Memory of the illustrious Navigator his honored Commander by JOHN FRANKLIN. CAPT. R.N. K.C.H. K.B. LT. GOVERNOR OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. (Wikisource contributor note)
