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European discovery and the colonisation of Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

The first ship and crew to chart the Australian coast and meet with Aboriginal people was the Duyfken captained by Dutchman, Willem Janszoon. In 1770, Englishman Lieutenant James Cook charted the Australian east coast in his ship HM Barque Endeavour. Coo...

Australian flora - Australia's Culture Portal

One of Australia's greatest treasures is her flora - a staggering 24,000 species of native plants have been identified compared to England's 1700 native plants. Australia's native plants vary across the many different natural environments of the country....

Crossing the Great Dividing Range—surveying an ancient land - Australia's Culture Portal

Ernest Revell, Three Sisters, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, c. In March 1812, the Colonial Surveyor George William Evans was sent to explore Jervis Bay, to determine a possible inland route back to Port Jackson. Other explorers, such as Hume and Hove...

Mapping Australia's Coastline - Australia's Culture Portal

- Plate I. 'General chart of Terra Australis or Australia, showing the parts explored between 1798 and 1803. Image courtesy of The State Library of South Australia. Indigenous Australian concepts of the world were 'based on another view of creation and on...

Science in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Sir William Bragg - Nobel Prize for physics, 1915. Bragg shared the prize with his son (also Sir William Bragg). Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet - Nobel Prize for medicine, 1960. ...

Zoos in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

However, the first zoo in Australia, Melbourne Zoo, wasn't established until 1862. Taronga Zoo and Western Plains Zoo are jointly administered New South Wales public zoos. The zoo features both Australian native species and exotic species of mammals, bi...

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South Seas: Voyaging and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Pacific (1760-1800)   (more info)

South Seas is an online information resource for the history of European voyaging and cross-cultural encounters in the Pacific between 1760 and 1800. South Seas offers manuscript of James CookÆs Endeavour Journal, together with journals kept by Joseph Ban

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Fellowship of Three: The Lives and Association of John Hunter [1728-1793] ; James Cook [1728-1779]; and Joseph Banks [1743-1820] - Beasley, A.W.   (website Adelaide Booksellers )

Binding: HardbackEdition: 1st EditionPublisher: Sydney Kangaroo Press 1993ISBN Number: 0864175426 / 9780864175427Seller ID: ID15921 Small Quarto Size. DJ protected in plastic cover. Illustrated with Colour & Black and White plates. ...

A9116 Creamware coffee pot, transfer printed in black with "the Tea Party" and "The Shepherd", inscribed "Joseph and Sarah Banks". [Leeds], England. c. 1770.(AF). - Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

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Joseph Banks - O'Brian, Patrick :: Paperchain Bookstore Manuka Online   (website Paperchain Bookstore )

336> This is a biography of Sir Joseph Banks, botanist, explorer, President of the Royal Society and one of Australia's founding fathers. He was among the most influential figures of the 18th and 19th centuries. As a young man, he accompanied Captain Co...

Joseph Banks and the British Museum: The World of Collecting, 1770-1830 by Neil Chambers | Lucas | Reviews in Australian Studies   (website National Library of Australia (NLA) )

Reviews in Australian Studies, Vol 2, No 7 (2007) Home > Vol 2, No 7 (2007) > Lucas Joseph Banks and the British Museum: The World of Collecting, 1770-1830 by Neil Chambers...

CAN - Collections Australia Network - Joseph Banks and the flora of Australian east coast - Travelling Exhibition   (website Collections Australia Network (CAN) )

The engravings of Sydney Parkinson&rsquo;s original drawings which recorded the coastal plants collected between Sydney and far north Queensland by Sir Joseph Banks and Dr Daniel Carl Solander, on Captain James Cook&rsquo;s first voyage round the world, 1...

Digitisation project: Sir Joseph Banks Electronic Archive Project   (website(s) National Library of Australia (NLA)    Australian Libraries Gateway )

URL of site: http://www.slnsw.gov.au/Banks/ URL for project information: http://www.slnsw.gov.au/Banks/intro/backgr.htm Content: Paintings and other materials. Digitisation policy and priorities: Strategies for the management of digital files will be inc...

Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

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A4469 Portrait medallions (4), James Cook, Daniel Solander, Lady Banks, Joseph Banks, blue jasper earthenware, Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Pty Ltd, England, 1951-1952 - Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

Ceramics > Portrait medallions>>+ 178A Portrait medallion, blue jasper sto... > + A6373 Wedgwood jasper portrait medallion... > + A11029 Portrait medallion, stoneware, pa... > + 89/328 Medallion plaque, portrait depict......

Tag Archive for ‘Sir joseph banks’ at Powerhouse Museum Object of the Week - Powerhouse Museum   (website Powerhouse Museum )

0 Comments Tags: ceramics, governor arthur phillip, Sir joseph banks, vase, venus, wedgwoodm sydney cove medallion. The Museum has collected tableware and other objects designed and made at Wedgwood from 1890 the first Wedgwood objects were acquired only ...

Art Gallery Guide : Geelong Gallery / _Joseph Banks and the flora of the Australian east coast_   (website Art Gallery Guide Australia )

Geelong Gallery >Little Malop Street >Geelong >VIC 3220 >03 5229 3645 >http://www.geelonggallery.org.au Elizabeth Presa Journey to the Surface of the Earth. Metronomic Balance latest 3D works in mild steel Kate Hendry to 31 Oct ...

A9116 Creamware coffee pot, transfer printed in black with "the Tea Party" and "The Shepherd", inscribed "Joseph and Sarah Banks". [Leeds], England. c. 1770.(AF). - Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

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Joseph Banks Native Plants Reserve   (website(s) Directory of Australian Botanic Gardens and Arboreta    Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) )

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Joseph Banks' Endeavour Journal | State Library of New South Wales   (website State Library of New South Wales )

28. The land this morn appeard Cliffy and barren without wood. 29. The fires (fishing fires as we supposd) were seen during the greatest part of the night. 30. Before day break this morn the Indians were at the houses abreast of the Ship: they were hear...