ABSTRACT This paper examines the European colonisation of Portland Bay, Port Phillip District of New South Wales from 1828 to 1836. Its starting point is the mercantile origins of settlement which began with activities of sealers in the 1820s and whalers from 1833. In 1834 the Henty family from Launceston but originally from Sussex, England, established a permanent base there. The paper argues that these whaling establishments, hitherto unstudied in the architectural literature, with their industrial infrastructure (“grey architecture” after Bremner) were the beginning of European architecture in Victoria. Evidence is drawn from primary sources including sketches of the bay by John Helder Wedge (1835), the Henty Journals (1834–36), the 1835 watercolour of the bay by George Jackson and the record of Major Thomas Mitchell’s visit to the bay in 1836. By uncovering the Henty family’s extensive mercantile interests in Australia from their arrival on the Swan River in 1829 it reveals the relationship between whaling, trade, shipping, and settlement.

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波特兰湾和菲利普港 1828-1836 年欧洲建筑的起源

摘要 本文考察了 1828 年至 1836 年新南威尔士州菲利普港区波特兰湾的欧洲殖民。其起点是定居的商业起源，始于 1820 年代的海豹捕猎者和 1833 年的捕鲸者活动。1834 年亨蒂来自朗塞斯顿但最初来自英国苏塞克斯的家庭在那里建立了永久基地。该论文认为，这些迄今为止在建筑文献中未被研究过的捕鲸场所及其工业基础设施（布雷姆纳之后的“灰色建筑”）是维多利亚欧洲建筑的开端。证据来自主要来源，包括 John Helder Wedge (1835) 的海湾草图、Henty Journals (1834–36)、乔治·杰克逊 (George Jackson) 1835 年的海湾水彩画以及托马斯·米切尔少校 (Major Thomas Mitchell) 1836 年访问海湾的记录.