Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index John Septimus Roe was the first Surveyor-General of Western Australia. His early career included being a midshipman and master's mate on a number of vessels during and after the Napoleonic Wars, which took him to various sites across the British Empire: the European theatre of war, to North America, South America, the Arabian Gulf, India, Mauritius, Burma, South East Asia and tropical Australia. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.