Historical information
One of a collection of over 400 photographs in an album commenced in 1960 and presented to the Phillip Island & Westernport Historical Society by the Shire of Phillip Island
Physical description
Photograph of a Portrait of Surgeon George Bass seated facing half on with hands crossed at wrist and cane in left hand
Inscriptions & markings
"Surgeon George Bass". Sailing from Sydney in an open Whale Boat with six chosen seamen. He discovered Phillip Island on January 5th, 1798 at 7 o'clock in the morning.
