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Early Australian bushrangers - Australia's Culture Portal

McFarlane & Erskine, Gold escort attacked by bushrangers, 187-, print: lithograph. Image courtesy of the National Library of Australia: nla.pic-an8420450. Black Caesar escaped into the bush in 1790 with a musket where he later joined five or six other es...

Convicts and the British colonies in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

In 1788, the eleven ships of the First Fleet landed their 'cargo' of around 780 British convicts at Botany Bay in New South Wales. From 1788 to 1823, the Colony of New South Wales was officially a penal colony comprised mainly of convicts, marines and th...

Australian islands - Australia's Culture Portal

World Heritage-listed Fraser Island. However, Australia is actually made up of more than 8,000 islands, including the island state of Tasmania. Norfolk Island is located far off the east coast of Australia. ...

Australian folk music - Australia's Culture Portal

In the early days of the Australian colonies, convict ballads and songs became the foundation of Australia's later day folk music and its first original compositions. Bush songs, ballads and music influenced and defined the folk music of the 1950s. Indi...

Convict women in Port Jackson - Australia's Culture Portal

In 1788 the First Fleet landed at Camp Cove in Port Jackson with the 'cargo' of convicts which helped establish the penal colony of New South Wales. One in five of the convicts to arrive in the penal colony (1788-1823) was female and they made up the lar...

Early explorers - Australia's Culture Portal

J. C. Armytage, Return of Burke and Wills to Coopers Creek, engraving, in Australia by Edwin Carton Booth, opp. Explorers set out to discover rivers and land suitable for agriculture as well as to survey the land. A major expedition usually produced a p...

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Norfolk Island   (more info)

Information about Norfolk Island including its constitutional status and governmental arrangements, as well as information for those wanting to travel to the Island.

Norfolk Island - The Web Site   (more info)

This site has comprehensive information on Norfolk Island, which is situated 1700 kilometres north-east of Sydney. The site has details of the island's history, colonisation, settlements, government and a virtual tour.

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85/1284-1157 Glass negative, full plate, 'Pine Trees, Norfolk Island', Kerry and Co, Sydney, Australia, c. 1884-1917 - Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

This photographic negative was published by the Sydney firm Charles Kerry & Co. and is part of the Powerhouse Museum's Tyrrell collection which contains over 2,900 glass plate negatives by Kerry & Co. This photographic negative is one of 2900 Kerry & Co....

85/1284-1161 Glass negative, full plate, 'The Cemetery, Norfolk Island', Kerry and Co, Sydney, Australia, c. 1884-1917 - Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

This photographic negative was published by the Sydney firm Charles Kerry & Co. and is part of the Powerhouse Museum's Tyrrell collection which contains over 2,900 glass plate negatives by Kerry & Co. This photographic negative is one of 2900 Kerry & Co....

85/1284-1177 Glass negative, full plate, 'Cricket Ground, Norfolk Island', Kerry and Co, Sydney, Australia, c. 1884-1917. - Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

This photographic negative was published by the Sydney firm Charles Kerry & Co. and is part of the Powerhouse Museum's Tyrrell collection which contains over 2,900 glass plate negatives by Kerry & Co. This photographic negative is one of 2900 Kerry & Co....

85/1284-2849 Glass negative, full plate, 'Potts Farm, Norfolk Island', Kerry and Co, Sydney, Australia, c. 1884-1917 - Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

This photographic negative was published by the Sydney firm Charles Kerry & Co. and is part of the Powerhouse Museum's Tyrrell collection which contains over 2,900 glass plate negatives by Kerry & Co. This photographic negative is one of 2900 Kerry & Co....

85/1284-1170 Glass negative, full plate, 'Bloody Bridge, Norfolk Island', Kerry and Co, Sydney, Australia, c. 1884-1917 - Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

This photographic negative was published by the Sydney firm Charles Kerry & Co. and is part of the Powerhouse Museum's Tyrrell collection which contains over 2,900 glass plate negatives by Kerry & Co. This photographic negative is one of 2900 Kerry & Co....

85/1284-1174 Glass negative, full plate, 'Emily Bay, Norfolk Island', Kerry and Co, Sydney, Australia, c. 1884-1917 - Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

This photographic negative was published by the Sydney firm Charles Kerry & Co. and is part of the Powerhouse Museum's Tyrrell collection which contains over 2,900 glass plate negatives by Kerry & Co. This photographic negative is one of 2900 Kerry & Co....

85/1284-1159 Glass negative, full plate, 'Fern Trees, Norfolk Island', Kerry and Co, Sydney, Australia, c. 1884-1917 - Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

This photographic negative was published by the Sydney firm Charles Kerry & Co. and is part of the Powerhouse Museum's Tyrrell collection which contains over 2,900 glass plate negatives by Kerry & Co. This photographic negative is one of 2900 Kerry & Co....

85/1284-1162 Glass negative, full plate, 'View at Kingston, Norfolk Island', Kerry and Co, Sydney, Australia, c. 1884-1917 - Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

This photographic negative was published by the Sydney firm Charles Kerry & Co. and is part of the Powerhouse Museum's Tyrrell collection which contains over 2,900 glass plate negatives by Kerry & Co. This photographic negative is one of 2900 Kerry & Co....

85/1284-1178 Glass negative, full plate, 'Hansom's Bay, Norfolk Island', Kerry and Co, Sydney, Australia, c. 1884-1917. - Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

This photographic negative was published by the Sydney firm Charles Kerry & Co. and is part of the Powerhouse Museum's Tyrrell collection which contains over 2,900 glass plate negatives by Kerry & Co. This photographic negative is one of 2900 Kerry & Co....

85/1284-1173 Glass negative, full plate, 'View, Norfolk Island', Kerry and Co, Sydney, Australia, c. 1884-1917 - Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

This photographic negative was published by the Sydney firm Charles Kerry & Co. and is part of the Powerhouse Museum's Tyrrell collection which contains over 2,900 glass plate negatives by Kerry & Co. This photographic negative is one of 2900 Kerry & Co....

85/1284-1160 Glass negative, full plate, 'Pine Avenue, Norfolk Island', Kerry and Co, Sydney, Australia, c. 1884-1917 - Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

This photographic negative was published by the Sydney firm Charles Kerry & Co. and is part of the Powerhouse Museum's Tyrrell collection which contains over 2,900 glass plate negatives by Kerry & Co. This photographic negative is one of 2900 Kerry & Co....

85/1284-1165 Glass negative, full plate, 'Mission Station, Norfolk Island', Kerry and Co, Sydney, Australia, c. 1884-1917 - Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

This photographic negative was published by the Sydney firm Charles Kerry & Co. and is part of the Powerhouse Museum's Tyrrell collection which contains over 2,900 glass plate negatives by Kerry & Co. This photographic negative is one of 2900 Kerry & Co....