Moonta Herald and Northern Territory Gazette

The Moonta Herald and Northern Territory Gazette was a newspaper produced on the vessel SS Moonta that was sailed by George Goyder in 1868 and 1869 from Port Adelaide to Darwin.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} The aim of the 41-day voyage was to provide an initial survey of what was to become the Northern Territory.^[6]

It consisted of five issues (Saturdays, 2-30 January 1869) and a supplement (Wednesday 24 February 1869), and an additional issue that was released when the vessel reached Port Darwin, where its reporting captures some of the earliest colonial impressions of the sea and land surrounding the site.^[7] The issues, which were distributed to all the people on Moonta, contained comedic articles, a lost and found section, advertisements for on-board events such as concerts, and more.^[1][8] The original newspapers were hand-written, but it was professionally printed later in Adelaide.^[6]

References

1. "Moonta herald and Northern Territory gazette". Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 17 March 2011. Retrieved 16 August 2010.
2. Kerr, Margaret Goyder (1972). The surveyors: the story of the founding of Darwin. Hale. ISBN 978-0-7091-3071-0.
3. Finch, Alan (1965). Pens & ems in Australia. Rigby.
4. South Australiana, Volumes 8-9. 1969. p. 34.
5. Ross F. Collins, E. M. Palmegiano (2007). The rise of western journalism, 1815–1914. McFarland & Co. ISBN 978-0-7864-3143-4.
6. "Moonta herald and Northern Territory gazette". www.samemory.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
7. "Surveying Darwin 1869 | Northern Territory Library". ntl.nt.gov.au. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
8. Macquarie University Law School. "Moonta Herald and Northern Territory Gazette". Retrieved 20 September 2018.

External links

• Trove – photo-image of the newspaper
• "The Moonta herald and Northern Territory gazette". The Moonta Herald. 1 (1). 2 January 1869. hdl:10070/218983.
• "The Moonta herald and Northern Territory gazette". The Moonta Herald. 1 (2). 9 January 1869. hdl:10070/218984.
• "The Moonta herald and Northern Territory gazette". The Moonta Herald. 1 (3). 16 January 1869. hdl:10070/218985.
• "The Moonta herald and Northern Territory gazette". The Moonta Herald. 1 (4). 23 January 1869. hdl:10070/218986.
• "The Moonta herald and Northern Territory gazette". The Moonta Herald. 1 (5). 30 January 1869. hdl:10070/222190.
• "The Moonta herald and Northern Territory gazette". The Moonta Herald. Supplement. 24 February 1869. hdl:10070/218987.
• Goyder Subject guide at Northern Territory Library
• Surveying Darwin, Northern Territory Library online feature
• Photograph of the Moonta