First Fleet artwork collection

A navigation chart of Port Stephens on the coast of New South Wales to the north of Port Jackson and Broken Bay. It includes an orientation arrow indicating north to the right above a scale of miles, both drawn in black ink and wash. The harbour occupies the vertical centre of the chart, dividing into two rivers at the top, with another branching off to the right which ends at the inscription "Here I suppose there is a River". The main coastline continues leftwards from the southern arm of the harbour entrance towards centre left, and from the northern arm downwards to lower right. The coast is outlined in black ink, with a band of pale blue wash indicating the sea side, and pink and grey indicating the edge of the land. The bulk of the land mass is coloured with a yellow wash. A dotted line, labelled "Track in", leads along the northern coast on the right into the harbour entrance where it is marked with an anchor opposite Salamander Point, and out to the left where it is labelled "Track out". Natural features labelled on the south side of the harbour include "Rocky Bay" to the left and, from east to west (bottom to top), "Split Island", "Mistaken Island", "Narrow neck bay", "Shoal water bay", "Salamander Point", "Irish Water", "Friendship Point" and "Duck Bay". Islands and other navigational hazards in the harbour itself include, from east to west, "Phillip Island", "Cabbage Tree Island", "Sandy bottom", "Sand & Mudd", "Soft Sandy bottom", two shoals with dotted outlines and coloured with yellow wash named "Stingrea Shoals" and "Pelican Shoals" and annotated "Here I suppose no passage for a Vessel", "Direction Island", "Redbill Island", Benighted Island" and "Pellican Islands". Depth is indicated in feet. The drawing is framed by single-banded ink border.