History
The bay was sighted by Captain Cook in 1770. In 1791 the bay was entered by the transport ship Atlantic and named by Lt Richard Bowen, the naval agent aboard, in honour of British Admiral John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, under whom he had served. John Jervis's family pronounced the surname 'jerviss'. (The origin of the surname was the Norman personal name 'Gervase', brought to England at the Conquest.)
The first European to visit the area was John Oxley, an English explorer and surveyor, in 1819.
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