May
19 Hinchinbrook Island named by Lieutenant Phillip Parker King.
June
7 Lieutenant Phillip Parker King passes Slade Point and comments on fires on the coast at Cape Hillsbourough evidence of a substantial Aboriginal population.
22 Lieutenant Phillip Parker King RN, on aboard HM Colonial Cutter Mermaid names Mt Bellenden Ker after John Bellenden Ker, at the suggestion of Allan Cunningham, an accompanying botanist aboard HMCC Mermaid.