Phillip Parker King

…explored in 1818–20 by Captain Phillip Parker King, who named them in the belief that the crocodiles infesting their lower swampy, jungle-fringed reaches were alligators (actually, alligators are not indigenous to Australia). The South Alligator rises in the hills near El Sherana, a now-abandoned mining base for uranium, and follows…

Two Admiralty expeditions—under Phillip Parker King (1817–22) and John Clements Wickham (1838–39)—filled this gap.

…was explored in 1818 by Phillip Parker King, who named it for the 3rd Earl Bathurst, the British secretary for war and the colonies (1812–27). In 1910 it became the site of a large Roman Catholic mission to the Tiwi. Bathurst and Melville islands were declared Aboriginal reserves in 1911…