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... Harbour , Sting - Rays Harbour , and Stingrays Bay . Cook altered the name first to Botanist Bay and then to Botany Bay when he realised how much plant material the scientists had gathered . While there was for a consider- able time ...
... Harbour , Sting - Rays Harbour , and Stingrays Bay . Cook altered the name first to Botanist Bay and then to Botany Bay when he realised how much plant material the scientists had gathered . While there was for a consider- able time ...
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... harbour and named it in 1839. ' The other rocks , ' he wrote , ' near it ( Tall Head ) were of a fine - grained sandstone : - a new feature in the geology of this part of the continent , which afforded us an appropriate opportunity of ...
... harbour and named it in 1839. ' The other rocks , ' he wrote , ' near it ( Tall Head ) were of a fine - grained sandstone : - a new feature in the geology of this part of the continent , which afforded us an appropriate opportunity of ...
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... harbour in 1857 . Port Julia SA Named after Mrs Julia Wurm , an early settler . Port Jackson NSW After Sir George Jackson , Judge - Advocate of the Fleet . Captain Cook's Journal of 6 May 1770 reads : ' ... at Noon , we were by ...
... harbour in 1857 . Port Julia SA Named after Mrs Julia Wurm , an early settler . Port Jackson NSW After Sir George Jackson , Judge - Advocate of the Fleet . Captain Cook's Journal of 6 May 1770 reads : ' ... at Noon , we were by ...
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Aboriginal name Aboriginal word Adelaide Bass Bathurst birthplace Brisbane called Camp Captain Cook coast Colonial command corruption Cove Creek d'Entrecasteaux Dalrymple Discovered and named discovery district Duke Duyfken E. J. Eyre Earl early settler Ernest Giles expedition explorer Fitzroy George gold Goulburn Governor Macquarie Harbour Henry Hill Island Q James John Oxley Kangaroo known Lady Nelson Lake later Leichhardt Lieut Lieut-Governor Lord Matthew Flinders McDouall Stuart meaning Moreton Mount NSW Mount Q Murray River name was given Named by Captain Named by Flinders Named by Governor Nicolas Baudin NSW Aboriginal NSW Named NT Named origin P. P. King Peak Peninsula Plains probably Q Aboriginal Q Discovered Queensland River NSW River Q Named river was discovered rock Scotland settlement South Australia South Wales station Strait survey surveyor Surveyor-General Swamp Sydney T. L. Mitchell Tasman Tasmania Thomas town township tree vessel Victoria water hole Western Australia William wrote