Cobourg, Northern Territory
Victoria Settlement
The ruins of Victoria Settlement bear a poignant reminder of hardship and desperation of the early years of colonisation.
In 1818 Captain Phillip Parker King explored and named Cobourg Peninsula and Port Essington. His surveys also determined the locations of the first European settlements in northern Australia: Fort Dundas (Tiwi Islands) Fort Wellington and Victoria.
With the fear of Dutch and French expansion in the southern East Indies...