A new analysis of a tree stump from the Gulf of Carpentaria, on which Matthew Flinders carved 'Investigator' in 1802, disproves a theory about when explorers first arrived on the shores of northern Queensland.
A new analysis of a tree stump from the Gulf of Carpentaria has disproved a theory about when explorers first arrived on the shores of northern Queensland.
However, James Cook University researcher Sarah Collins said new analysis of the stump had shown only five inscriptions — all written in English."People have misread the original, now quite faded, inscription of the word Investigator as Chinese characters." "When we went back and physically looked, even today you can clearly make out the word Investigator," she said.Principal curator of History, Industry and Technology at the Queensland Museum, Geraldine Mate, said trees acted as makeshift guest books, or 19th-century social media, to explorers when arriving on the Indigenous Kaiadilt land of Sweers Island.
Although the markings on the stump were all in English, Ms Collins did not want to rule out the possibility of non-British explorers having arrived on Sweers Island before Flinders.
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