Collet Barker (31 December 1784 – 30 April 1831) was a British military officer and explorer. He explored areas of South Australia, Western Australia...
16 KB (1,972 words) - 12:57, 26 August 2024
Captain Collet Barker, who was in command of Western Australia's original British settlement at King George's Sound from 1829 to 1831. Mount Barker is situated...
26 KB (2,727 words) - 08:00, 5 June 2024
was split into seven single-member divisions. It is named for Captain Collet Barker, a British military officer and early explorer, prior to the British...
16 KB (1,101 words) - 10:03, 21 August 2024
Stéphane Collet (born 1972), retired French-Malagasy football midfielder Vincent Collet (born 1963), French basketball coach Given name: Collet Barker (1784–1831)...
2 KB (288 words) - 05:54, 6 March 2024
during his circumnavigation of the Australian continent. The explorer Collet Barker was the first European to climb it, in April 1831, almost six years...
20 KB (1,353 words) - 04:20, 1 May 2024
was given its name in April 1831 by British Military Officer Captain Collet Barker, after fellow officer and explorer Charles Sturt. The Sturtian glaciation...
8 KB (918 words) - 20:34, 4 August 2024
31 August 2021. Barker, Collet; Mulvaney, John; Green, Neville (1992). Commandant of Solitude: The Journals of Captain Collet Barker, 1828-1831. Melbourne...
61 KB (5,954 words) - 22:41, 22 July 2024
discovered Mount Lofty. This sighting of Mount Barker was the first by a European. Captain Collet Barker corrected Sturt's error when he surveyed the area...
39 KB (4,247 words) - 06:10, 5 June 2024
basketball player Clive Barker (artist, born 1940), Pop Art sculptor Clive Barker (born 1952), British horror author Collet Barker (1784–1831), British explorer...
8 KB (973 words) - 22:57, 18 August 2024
taxation. Collet was born in London on 31 December 1812, the son of John Dobson (1778–1827), a London merchant, and his wife Elizabeth Barker (1787–1875)...
6 KB (599 words) - 13:46, 14 May 2023
The Barker Inlet is a tidal inlet of the Gulf St Vincent in Adelaide, South Australia, named after Captain Collet Barker who first sighted it in 1831....
12 KB (1,120 words) - 09:45, 27 June 2024
the Port Adelaide River which was first discovered in 1831 by Captain Collet Barker and later accurately charted in 1836–37 by Colonel William Light, leader...
100 KB (8,995 words) - 13:26, 24 August 2024
Retrieved April 23, 2024. "An Old Time Episode. The Murder of Captain Barker, Narrative of a Survivor". The Advertiser (Adelaide). South Australia. October...
144 KB (4,829 words) - 19:30, 16 August 2024
Botanist David Coleman Liberal Inner-metropolitan Barker 1903 South Australia 63,886 Collet Barker Explorer Tony Pasin Liberal Rural Barton 1922 New South...
40 KB (870 words) - 17:19, 12 July 2024
– Charles Felix of Sardinia, King of Sardinia (b. 1765) April 30 – Collet Barker, British military officer, explorer (b. 1784) May 17 – Nathaniel Rochester...
19 KB (2,083 words) - 17:42, 6 July 2024
and, continuing northerly from Mount Barker stretches away, without any visible boundary". Captain Collet Barker, sent by New South Wales Governor Ralph...
31 KB (3,913 words) - 02:28, 14 August 2024
replaced by Captain Collet Barker in September 1828. Barker was able to develop a better relationship with the Iwaidja people. Barker left Raffles Bay in...
4 KB (405 words) - 12:28, 23 January 2024
and George Fletcher Moore Avon River area in Western Australia 1831 Collet Barker Mount Lofty and the Murray Mouth 1834 Frederick Ludlow Augusta to Perth;...
38 KB (3,375 words) - 16:13, 24 August 2024
viewing point and from there he sighted the Murray Mouth. 1831: Captain Collet Barker surveyed the Murray Mouth but was killed by Indigenous Australians after...
32 KB (3,947 words) - 01:29, 13 August 2024
recalled and replaced by Captain Collet Barker who markedly improved relations with the Iwaidja. However, despite Barker's efforts, Fort Wellington was also...
26 KB (3,355 words) - 18:27, 14 August 2023
vicinity of the Murray Mouth was explored more thoroughly by Captain Collet Barker in 1831. The first three settlers on the Murray River are known to have...
50 KB (4,746 words) - 05:06, 28 June 2024
survey of what is now the Adelaide city centre.[citation needed] Captain Collet Barker probably named Brown Hill when seen from Gulf St Vincent or in 1836...
4 KB (260 words) - 03:38, 17 April 2024
Waterfall Gully comes from a "Mr Kent" who, along with Captain Collet Barker and Barker's servant, Miles, climbed Mount Lofty in 1831. In making their ascent...
43 KB (4,590 words) - 16:49, 12 August 2024
women’s river". On 13 April 1831, British military officer Captain Collet Barker and his party arrived at Cape Jervis on the Isabella. He examined the...
11 KB (828 words) - 03:41, 29 March 2024
and at Chambers Gully in Coromandel Valley. In April 1831, Captain Collet Barker a British Military Officer named the river after fellow officer and...
11 KB (912 words) - 08:22, 27 January 2023
Lofty. Captain Collet Barker fixed this error when he surveyed the area in 1831. Sturt named the mountain in honor of Captain Barker after he was killed...
4 KB (341 words) - 03:44, 29 March 2024
sent Captain Collet Barker to carry out a survey of the area in 1831. After swimming across the mouth of the Murray River alone, Barker was killed by...
68 KB (7,937 words) - 10:16, 15 August 2024
commandants, Lieutenant Sleeman, Captain Wakefield and Captain Collet Barker, living with Barker when seasonal fishing brought him to King George Sound. He...
108 KB (16,187 words) - 16:12, 24 August 2024
of a drowned white man were buried. He believed it would be Captain Collet Barker, who was speared to death in the same area on 30 April 1831. They found...
39 KB (4,903 words) - 18:22, 21 January 2024
travels to the mouth of the Murray River in a whale boat. 1831: Captain Collet Barker explores the Adelaide Plains and climbs to the summit of Mount Lofty...
28 KB (3,158 words) - 01:40, 26 February 2024