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Author
Wellbank, I., compiler
Title
Complete sailing directions for the various passages to and through Torres Straits: comprising the inner passage of the late Admiral King, and the outer routes by Raine Island: and by the north eastern entrance, by Captain Blackwood (...)
Edition
2nd
Imprint
Reading & Wellbank, Sydney, 1864, 47 pp
Description

Contents: Sailing directions for the inner route, by Philip Parker King; Sailing directions for the outer route, by F. P. Blackwood; Positions of the most prominent outlying dangers in the route by the outer passage to Torres Straits: determined with great precision, by Capt. Denham, H.M.S. Herald, in 1859.

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