Port Essington
![Port EssingtonPort Essington, Northern Territory](/Images/godic/202502/03/Australia_Northern_Territory_location_map_blank.svg5157.png")
![New Victoria in 1839. Lithograph from Voyage au Pôle Sud et en Océanie by Jules Dumont d'Urville](/Images/godic/202502/03/Atlas_pittoresque_pl_1205157.jpg")
![Port Essington as illustrated in Ludwig Leichhardt's account of his expedition](/Images/godic/202502/03/Port_Essington_c18455157.jpg")
Port Essington is an inlet and historic site located on the Cobourg Peninsula in the Garig Gunak Barlu National Park in Australia's Northern Territory. It was the site of an early attempt at British settlement, but now exists only as a remote series of ruins.