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Good's Island and Murray's Islands29 October 1802 - 3 November 1802

The expeditioners are approached in a reef around Murray's Islands by over 40 Aboriginal people in canoes offering goods to barter. Flinders names Good's Island in the Torres Strait in honour of the expedition's gardener. On the island they find a species of silk-cotton plant that could be used in textile manufacture.

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  • Kapok tree—Cochlospermum gillivraei
    Artist Ferdinand L Bauer
    Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London—Australian Botanical Drawings 4, 10617

  • Murray Isles [Islands]
    Artist William Westall
    National Library of Australia—138892299

  • Views on the north coast of Australia
    Artist William Westall
    National Library of Australia—138887635

  • Noisy friarbird— Philemon corniculatus
    Artist Ferdinand L Bauer
    Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London—993679902081_027, Plate 25