CHAPTER XC 



MINUTIAE OF MARINE SURVEYS 

 H.M.S. "PALUMA," 1890-4 



" PALUMA" NAMES HILLS ROUND CARRON'S LAST CAMP AND THE SUMMITS OF 

 CARRON RANGE. SURVEYS SHORE OF TEMPLE BAY. 



A. THE " PALUMA" AND THE CARRON RANGE, 1890 



"IT N commemoration of the tragic circumstances connected with 

 Carron's stay when Kennedy left him on his last forlorn 



A expedition," I named, on I5th February, i88o,|the mountain 

 mass north of the mouth of the Pascoe River the Carron 

 Range. (SEE MAP B AND ADMIRALTY CHART, No. 2354.) The 

 location and naming of various eminences in this range must 

 have been the work of the officers of the " Paluma " in 1890.' 

 These are, in their order from south to north, CARRON HiLL, 2 

 KENNEDY HILL, S STANLEY HiLL, 4 HUXLEY HILL, S and WALL HiLL, 6 

 In addition, GLENNIE CREEK' is laid down on the chart as falling 

 into the south-western corner of Temple Bay. 



There is nothing on the face of the chart to show whether the 

 eminences of the Carron Range were surveyed or merely sketched. 

 As a matter of fact, they could all have been sketched from the sea, 

 or coast, from Glennie Creek, via Fair Cape, to the Pascoe and a 



1 See portion of title of Chart No. 2354 following the reference to H.M.S. " Sala- 

 mander." The full title is as follows : 



" No. 2354. Australia, North and East Coast, Sheet 20. Cape Grenville to Booby 

 Island. The Barrier Reefs and Raine Island Entrance. Surveyed by Captain F. 

 Blackwood, Lieutenant C. B. Yule, Mr. F. I. Evans, Master, and D. Aird, Mate, H.M.S. 

 ' Fly,' 1843-5. Inner Route and Coast Line by Captain O. Stanley, Lieutenants C. B. 

 Yule, J. Dayman, H. G. Simpson and Mr. Obree, H.M.S. ' Rattlesnake,' 1847-9. Cor- 

 rections and additions by Captain Denham, H.M.S. ' Herald,' 1860, Captain Richards, 

 H.M.S. ' Hecate,' 1863, and Commander Nares, H.M.S. ' Salamander,' 1867, and 

 other Officers of the Royal Navy to 1890. 



"Cape Grenville to Alpha Rock, from a Survey by Lieutenant and Commander 

 G. Pirie and the Officers of H.M. Surveying Ship 'Paluma,' 1890. 



" Channel South and East of Bird Island by Lieutenant and Commander T. H 

 Heming and the Officers of H.M.S. ' Paluma,' 1893." 



Published 2oth April, 1895. Corrections, September, 1867 ; June, 1869 ; January, 

 1881 ; January, 1885 ; January, 1891 ; November, 1892 ; January, 1894 ; January, 



1895- 



2 Carron was one of the three survivors and the Historian of the Kennedy expedition. 



3 Kennedy was the Leader of the expedition. 



4 Captain Owen Stanley, of the " Rattlesnake." 



6 Professor Thomas Huxley was one of the Naturalists on the " Rattlesnake." 



6 Thomas Wall, a member of the Kennedy expedition, died at the Pascoe camp. 



7 R. W. Glennie was probably a junior officer on the " Paluma " in 1890 ; he was a 

 Lieutenant on the same ship in 1893-4 an( J on * ne " Dart " in 1896 



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