Allan Cunningham Australian Collecting Localities. 2002. 40 maps. VI, 90 p. Paper bd.

A synoptic account of the localities visited by the botanist Allan Cunningham during his voyages around Australia with Phillip Parker King between December 1817 and April 1822. A brief account is given of each locality visited by Cunningham, and each locality is charted, along with the course and anchorages of the ships Mermaid and Bathurst, in a series of 40 detailed maps.
Allan Cunningham was Australia’s foremost botanical explorer in the first half of the 19th century. During his 17 years in Australia
(1816–1831, 1837–1839), as well as accompanying King on four voyages around the eastern, northern and western coasts of mainland Australia and one to Tasmania, he explored much of inland eastern New South Wales and southeastern Queensland, and visited New Zealand (twice) and Norfolk Island. This book provides a chronological summary of these expeditions, during which he collected over 3000 specimens of plants, most of them for the first time.
This book will be invaluable to those wishing to revisit his collecting sites, as well as those researching his collections. Cunningham’s original place names are interpreted and compared with modern place names.