Editing Collet Barker (section)

{{Short description|British military officer and explorer}}
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{{Use British English|date=September 2013}}

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|name              = Collet Barker
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|death_date        = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1831|04|30|1784|12|31}}
|birth_place       = [[Hackney (parish)|Hackney]], Middlesex, England
|death_place       = [[Younghusband Peninsula]],[[Coorong]], South Australia, Australia
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'''Collet Barker''' (31 December 1784 – 30 April 1831) was a British military officer and explorer. He was commandant at two British [[Outpost (military)|outposts]] for the [[Colony of New South Wales]]. [[Fort Wellington, Australia|Fort Wellington]] on the [[Cobourg Peninsula]], [[Northern Territory]] and a penal settlement at [[King George Sound (Western Australia)]]. Following the closure of the penal settlement at King George's Sound, at the direction of the Governor, whilst he was enroute to Sydney he explored areas of [[Southern Australia]] along the eastern shore of [[Gulf St Vincent]], the southern [[Mount Lofty Ranges]], [[Adelaide Plains]] and overland from [[Yankalilla Bay]] on [[Fleurieu Peninsula]] to the [[Murray Mouth]] before being killed whilst on duty. <ref>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/32075531</ref>