known, and the position held by the great island ol New Guinea on the habitable part of the globe.
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to the unknown coast-line of South-East and North-East New Guinea, since surveyed by H.M.S. " Basilisk," between
the limits of Heath Island and Huon Gulf.NAVIGATOR,
SOUTH-EAST COAST.
NEAREST POINT OF APPROACH.
Bougainville (A.D. 1768). D'Urville (A.D. 1840).
Some 40 miles south of Heath Island.
Some 16 miles south of Heath Island, or some 20 miles from the New Guinea coast.
NORTH-EAST COAST.
D'Entrecasteaux (A.D. 1793),
Captain Simpson, R.N.
H.M.S. " Blanche."
(A.D. 1872).
Some 28 miles east .of the now known eastern extremity of New Guinea, at which distance it is not visible.
Second approach (240 miles farther to the westward) to an estimated dis- tance of 25 miles from the land, and from a point which he named Richie Island, but which was found to be part of the mainland.
Some 34 miles from East Cape, the nearest point of the mainland of New Guinea, and 21 miles E.N.E. from Moresby Island, the outermost of the group of large islands into which the south-east extremity of New Guinea is now known to be broken up.
See Admiralty Chart, Papua, sheet 7 (A.D. 1875).
