A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Peter Blaskett
Date: 2021 Apr 6, 21:26 -0700
Many thanks to David Pike for jolting my mind.
Flinders' book says:
"At noon a projecting head two miles long, which, from the lumps of rock at the top,
I called Cape Knob, was three miles distant; and our observations and bearings of
the land were then as under;
Latitude, observed to the north and south 34° 35' 26"
Longitude by time keepers, 119 15
The cliffy projection past Cape Riche,
with Mount Rugged behind it, N. 75 W.
Two rocks, distant 7 or 8 miles, N. 56 W.
Cape Knob, eastern extremity, N. 11 E.
A cliffy projection further eastward, N. 46 E.
One of the Doubtful Isles, N. 54 E."
"As the wind veered round to the west and southward, we steered more in for the
north side of Doubtful Island Bay; and at noon, our situation and the bearings
of the land were these:
Latitude, observed to the north and south 34° 16' 40"
Longitude by time keepers 119 47
Doubtful Isles, south extreme, dist. 11 miles, S. 55 W.
West Mount Barren, N. 77½ W.
Middle do., N. 25 W.
East do., the furthest visible land, N. 28 E."
So I am fairly sure his T.K. notation must refer to longitude position by 'time keeper'.
Thanks to all.