Port Lincoln

Plate 13: Port Lincoln, looking across Boston Bay towards Spencers Gulf. Stanford Hill and Thistle Island in the distance. Part of the text accompanying the illustration reads 'This view commands a most extensive scene, looking eastward across Boston Bay, and the entrance of Port Lincoln Proper, towards the Islands at the mouth of Spencers Gulf. The point chosen is from the summit of Winter's Hill, whence the eye wanders over undulating hills, curiously sprinkled with "casurinae" or She oak trees, till it reaches the settlement called Port Lincoln, the houses of which are visible, skirting the margin of the water, where the southern extremity of Boston Bay is bounded by a beach of the whitest sand. Looking directly across the Bay is seen Stanford hill ... Beyond it, to the right, the lofty slopes of Thistle Island are discernable on the horizon; to the left is a portion of Boston Island, which forms a natural breakwater to this magnificent harbour'.

This is one of 60 coloured lithographs found in the 1847 edition of 'South Australia Illustrated' by colonial artist George French Angas, together with a descriptive passage for each. The lithograph was created by J.W. Giles from Angas' original painting. The date assigned is assumed to be approximately when the lithographs were created; the original paintings were done in earlier years.