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Tobias Furneaux by James Northcote. Adventure Siren. Early life [ edit ]. Service with Cook [ edit ]. Later commands [ edit ].

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Taxon named in his honor [ edit ]. See also [ edit ]. Notes [ edit ]. Footnotes [ edit ]. Citations [ edit ]. Australian Dictionary of Biography. I have appointed Mr. Tobias Furneaux a Lieutenant in his room for his good behaviour after Mr. Patterson was wounded.

He received prize money after Edinburgh captured six brigs on 11 June, They returned to Britain, and were paid off in July Furneaux returned to live at Swilly on half pay and prize money until commissioned as 2nd lieutenant under Captain Samuel Wallis in HMS Dolphin for a voyage to the Pacific. Tobias Furneaux and Samuel Wallis were indirectly related.

Illnesses to Wallis and to William Clarke, the first lieutenant, during the voyage, caused Furneaux to be in command for periods during which he acquitted himself well. Afterwards, in June , Furneaux was paid off, and recuperated at Swilly. Furneaux was promoted commander.

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On the former occasion he explored a great part of the south and east coasts of Tasmania, and made the earliest British chart of the same. Most of his names here survive; Cook, visiting this shore-line on his third voyage, confirmed Furneaux's account and delineation of it with certain minor criticisms and emendations , and named after him the islands in Banks Straits, opening into Bass's Straits, and the group now known as the Low Archipelago.

He was unmarried. He was described as being genteel and agreeable and was regarded as kind and humane by his men. Some commentators described him as a cautious navigator and explorer.