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European discovery and the colonisation of Australia - Australia's Culture PortalThe 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...
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....
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...
- 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...
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. ...
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 CookĘs Endeavour Journal, together with journals kept by Joseph Ban
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Music Australia - The Sir Joseph Banks polka (website MusicAustralia )The Sir Joseph Banks polka [music] / by John Stevens. "Respectfully dedicated to Mr & Mrs. Frank Smith 'Sir Joseph Banks', Botany". Use or borrow this resource from a library, archive or organisation near you or ask your local library to arrange an inte...
Description>Oval blue jasper portrait medallion of Sir Joseph Banks, featuring a white profile bust in relief on a blue background. Collection statement of significanceThe Banks Medallion Collection comprises a Wedgwood & Bentley cameo portrait medallion...
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The Sir Joseph Banks polka [music] / by John Stevens. "Respectfully dedicated to Mr & Mrs. Frank Smith 'Sir Joseph Banks', Botany". Use or borrow this resource from a library, archive or organisation near you or ask your local library to arrange an inte...
Sutherland Shire Council PO Box 17 SUTHERLAND NSW 2232 Ph: 02 - 9710 0333, 02 - 95245 1598 Fax: 02 - 9710 5721 Email: - Web Site: - Authority: Municipal, Sutherland Shire Council Established: 1970 Area: 2.2 ha Location: Manooka Pl, Kareela NSW (Sydways 35...
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...
150th anniversary of publication of Darwin's Origin of Species. More information at the Australian National Botanic Gardens site. Looking for glass in Sydney? ...
The life of Joseph Banks has obvious interest for historians of science, exploration, and Australia (to list a few). Other episodes include travels to Newfoundland and Iceland and the saga of "the King's sheep" (obtaining and breeding merino sheep from S...
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MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF SOUTH SEA ISLANDS. Little wind today; in some sea water, which was taken on board to season a cask, observed a very minute sea Insect, which Dr Solander describd by the name of Podura marina. Wind Freshend again this morn; observ'd...
Banks and Solander at Botany Bay April-May 1770 'in the woods botanizing as usual ...' During the eight days of their visit, Banks and Solander investigated various areas around Botany Bay, including Bare Island (Banks); the Sea Coast to the south (Cook, ...
Joseph Banks and the flora of the Australian east coast>12 September 2009 to 29 November 2009 An exhibition of over thirty coloured engravings based on Sydney Parkinson's original drawings recording the coastal plants collected between Sydney and far nort...
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