Henry Lidgbird Ball

Henry Lidgbird Ball ( * 1756, † October 22, 1818 in Mitcham, Surrey, England) was a British naval officer and explorer.

He was baptized on 7 December 1756 in the village of Woodchurch in the English county of Cheshire; accurate birth details are not known.

Life

Henry Lidgbird Ball commanded the HMS Supply one of the fastest sailing ships of the so-called First Fleet, a large British fleet, of Plymouth was a long journey to the other side of the world on the road in 1787. Balls ship landed in front of all the other ships in January 1788 in the Botany Bay near present-day Sydney, Australia.

With a little later carried out reconnaissance trip to Norfolk Island Ball discovered an uninhabited island group, the main island, he then called Lord Howe Iceland in honor of the then British Fleet Admiral Earl Richard Howe. Ball went on voyages between Sydney and Norfolk Island, the island group of newly discovered him several times and explored primarily the main island. He made it to a simple map of Lord Howe Island.

After Henry Lidgbird Ball, who died at the age of about 62 years in the UK, including the islet of Ball's Pyramid and the volcanic cone of Mount Lidgbird were named on Lord Howe Island.