The Lieutenant Governor of the Swan River Colony, Captain James Stirling, RN, named the settlement, which was established by Major Lockyer, Albany, after Frederick, the Duke of York and Albany (a duchy in Scotland), who was the second son of King George III.
By that stage the King George Sound settlement had been downgraded to civil management under the Government Resident, Alexander Collie, a naval surgeon who took an interest in the local environment and the aboriginal population. Swan River Colony became the main settlement, due to the persistent lobbying of Stirling.
Collie then served from 1833 to 1835 in Perth and ironically died on 8 November 1835 in the house of his friend George Cheyne of Albany, en-route from Fremantle to Sydney.
“In running into King George Sound there is no danger through either channel...the former [Princess Royal Harbour] will admit ships drawing eighteen or nineteen feet water; the latter [Oyster Harbour]. Vessels drawing ten feet.”