Editing Ball's Pyramid (section)

===Discovery===
[[File:Ball's Pyramid.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|left|Illustration of Ball's Pyramid that accompanied [[Arthur Phillip]]'s description]]

The pyramid is named after [[Royal Navy]] [[Lieutenant (navy)|Lieutenant]] [[Henry Lidgbird Ball]], who reported discovering it in 1788. On the same voyage, Ball also [[Lord Howe Island#History|discovered Lord Howe Island]], Ball's Pyramid's nearest landmass.

In ''The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk  Island'' (1789), [[Arthur Phillip]] gives this description of the area around Ball's Pyramid before describing Lord Howe Island:

<blockquote>There lies about four miles from the south-west part of the pyramid, a dangerous rock, which shows itself a little above the surface of the water, and appears not to be larger than a boat. Lieutenant Ball had no opportunity of examining whether there is a safe passage between them or not.<ref name=ArthurPhilip>{{cite book |last=Philip |first=Arthur |date=1789 |title=The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island |publisher=[[John Stockdale]] |location=Piccadilly, London |url=https://archive.org/details/thevoyageofgover15100gut |access-date=9 April 2014}}</ref></blockquote>