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    Port Jackson, commonly known as Sydney Harbour, consists of the waters of Sydney Harbour, Middle Harbour, North Harbour and the Lane Cove and Parramatta...
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    The Port Jackson shark (Heterodontus portusjacksoni) is a nocturnal, oviparous (egg laying) type of bullhead shark of the family Heterodontidae, found...
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    The Port Jackson Painter was one or more unknown watercolour artists working in Sydney, Australia, from 1788 through to the 1790s. The paintings are of...
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  • Port Jackson is a harbour of Sydney, Australia. Port Jackson may also refer to: Port Jackson, New Zealand, a small settlement on the Coromandel Peninsula's...
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    Ficus rubiginosa, the rusty fig or Port Jackson fig (damun in the Dharug language), is a species of flowering plant native to eastern Australia in the...
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    Shark Island is an island located within Sydney Harbour, in New South Wales, Australia. The island is 1.5 hectares (3.7 acres) in area, measuring some...
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  • Port Jackson Pidgin English or New South Wales Pidgin English was an English-based pidgin that originated in the region of Sydney and Newcastle in New...
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    Auckland, on the other side of the Hauraki Gulf. The small settlements of Port Jackson and Fletcher Bay lie immediately to the west and east respectively of...
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    Goat Island is a heritage-listed island located in Port Jackson, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Located northwest of the Sydney central business...
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    and Thornton give "Ea-ora" as the name of the "tribe" who inhabited "Port Jackson" and "the Sydney district" respectively, and this definition appears...
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    Port Moresby International Airport (IATA: POM, ICAO: AYPY), also known as Jacksons International Airport, is an international airport located eight kilometres...
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  • The three vessels made a faster trip than the First Fleet, arriving at Port Jackson in the last week of June 1790, three weeks after Lady Juliana, and one...
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    blue-leafed wattle, Western Australian golden wattle, and, in Africa, Port Jackson willow, is a small tree in the family Fabaceae. Native to Australia,...
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  • Port Jackson is an unincorporated community in Crawford County, Illinois, United States. Port Jackson is 6 miles (9.7 km) southwest of Flat Rock. U.S...
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    Ambassis jacksoniensis, commonly known as the Port Jackson glassfish or Port Jackson perchlet, is a species of fish in the family Ambassidae native to...
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    settlements are Port Jackson and Port Charles. Port Jackson is a bay on the north coast, just south of Cape Colville. Cook named Port Charles as he sailed...
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  • originally inhabited the area that they call "Gadi", which lies south of Port Jackson, covering today's Sydney central business district and stretching from...
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    99. Raper, George; Hunter, John (c. 1788) [surveyed 1788]. Chart of Port Jackson New South Wales as survey'd by Capt.n Iohn Hunter, second captain of...
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    small boats to explore other bays to the north. Phillip discovered that Port Jackson, about 12 kilometres to the north, was an excellent site for a colony...
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  • The Port Jackson Jazz Band were an Australian Dixieland jazz group formed in 1944 and based in Sydney. They were the longest running traditional jazz band...
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  • voyage from Calcutta to Port Jackson and was lost in 1812 off Sumatra while on a second voyage from Calcutta to Port Jackson. Mangalore's origins are...
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    lived in and around Sydney for at least 30,000 years. Sydney Cove from Port Jackson to Petersham was inhabited by the Cadigal clan. The principal language...
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    eventually to grow on the north shore of this port. Lady Nelson left Port Phillip on 11 March and returned to Port Jackson, anchoring in Sydney Cove on 25 March...
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    Sydney (category Port cities in New South Wales)
    (Cadigal) clan, whose territory stretches along the southern shore of Port Jackson from South Head to Darling Harbour, are the traditional owners of the...
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    Coolah had a population of 1,290. The name Coolah is derived from the Port Jackson Pidgin English word meaning "angry". On the northeastern side of the...
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    settlers, including 736 convicts. The fleet soon moved to the more suitable Port Jackson where a settlement was established at Sydney Cove on 26 January 1788...
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    to Botany Bay with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789), Arthur Phillip gives this description of the...
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    carrying Governor Ralph Darling and his family on its beam ends. Later Port Jackson boatmen would call it, the "Sútherly Búster". During the early days of...
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    of the Mohawk River, with the majority located on the north bank. The Port Jackson area on the south side is also part of the city. Prior to settlement...
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    The Steele Point Battery is a small fort, on the shores of Port Jackson in the eastern Sydney suburb of Vaucluse, Australia. Talk of the need for harbour...
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