Coburg Peninsula

Coburg Peninsula, the most northerly part of Australia to the west of the Gulf of Carpentaria, runs out in a north-west direction towards Melville Island, from which it is divided by Dundas Strait. On its north side is the bay known as Port Essington, at the head of which was established, in 1831, the settlement of Port Victoria—abandoned, on account of its insalubrity, in 1850. Swamp buffaloes, originally brought from Java, have increased here enormously.