Norfolk Island-born naval officer and explorer Phillip Parker King (1791 – 1856) surveyed the sections Australia's coast that Matthew Flinders had not investigated between 1791 and 1810.
King's four voyages (December 1817 to April 1822) focussed on northern waters between Arnhem Land and Northwest Cape, though he also surveyed Tasmania's Macquarie Harbour in the summer of 1818-19.