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... settlement Hobart , a dispatch to the Governor of New South Wales , dated 27 September 1803 , bearing this address . Collins transferred the name as well as the settlement to Sullivan Cove . Early forms of the name were Hobart Town ...
... settlement Hobart , a dispatch to the Governor of New South Wales , dated 27 September 1803 , bearing this address . Collins transferred the name as well as the settlement to Sullivan Cove . Early forms of the name were Hobart Town ...
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... settlement was located here . Batman ' purchased ' 600,000 acres of land , and in the same year , 1835 , John Pascoe Fawkner formed another independent settlement . Governor Bourke visited the locality in 1837 , repudiated Batman's ...
... settlement was located here . Batman ' purchased ' 600,000 acres of land , and in the same year , 1835 , John Pascoe Fawkner formed another independent settlement . Governor Bourke visited the locality in 1837 , repudiated Batman's ...
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... settlement at Botany Bay to the Treasury . When Captain Arthur Phillip transferred the settlement from Botany Bay to Port Jackson , he named the bay where he landed Sydney Cove . Phillip's first thought was to call it Albion , but he ...
... settlement at Botany Bay to the Treasury . When Captain Arthur Phillip transferred the settlement from Botany Bay to Port Jackson , he named the bay where he landed Sydney Cove . Phillip's first thought was to call it Albion , but he ...
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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