Port Essington

Port Essington is located in Northern Territory
Port Essington
Port Essington
Port Essington, Northern Territory
New Victoria in 1839. Lithograph from Voyage au Pôle Sud et en Océanie by Jules Dumont d'Urville
Port Essington as illustrated in Ludwig Leichhardt's account of his expedition

Port Essington is an inlet and historic site located on the Cobourg Peninsula in the Garig Gunak Barlu National Park in Australia's Northern Territory. It was the site of an early attempt at British settlement, but now exists only as a remote series of ruins.

Nautical Chart of Port Essington, showing the Victoria settlement, surveyed by Charles Tyers in 1839