Editing Collet Barker (section)

==Recognitions==
In December 1829, [[Mount Barker, Western Australia]] was named after Captain Collet Barker, whilst he was commandant of the garrison at King George Sound, by a naval ship's surgeon [[Thomas Braidwood Wilson]].

In 1830 and 1831 Barker was made a [[Justice of the peace]] of Peace in the Colony of New South Wales <ref>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2200307</ref>

[[Mount Barker (South Australia)|Mount Barker]] was named for him by [[Charles Sturt|Captain Sturt]], who erroneously thought it was Mount Lofty, and the [[Mount Barker, South Australia|eponymous town]] is named for the mountain. <ref>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4917178</ref>

[[Barker Inlet]] near [[Port Adelaide]] is also named for him which he sited from the Mount Lofty Ranges and explored the inlet between the 17th and 21st April 1831.
Later travelling southwards he discovered a clear stream which he named [[Sturt River]]. <ref>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/160738358</ref>

In 1903 the Australian electoral division of [[Division of Barker]] in South Australia was named after him. <ref>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/147772550</ref>

[[File:Captain Sturt Monument, Hindmarsh Island.jpg|thumb|Plaque on a monument dedicated to Captain [[Charles Sturt]] and Collet Barker, on [[Hindmarsh Island]].]]