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Re: Australian Trivia Only
Shirley,
I think you’re revealing a bit too much of your priorities.
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Ray
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Ray
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Jon,never known so much about port pilots been active in Sydney harbour for 225 years, think we need a clue to location of port, which state?
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Maybe, he would float to the top of the list if you sorted the 225 years of history from the oldest first.... he arrived in 1788 on the Sirius.
This is getting serious for our history hackers..... oh, and did I say Sydney Harbour?
This is getting serious for our history hackers..... oh, and did I say Sydney Harbour?
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Robert Watson gave his name to Watson's Bay, Sydney ? He arrived on the Sirius.
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Surely there must be some Sydney fisher folk who know the southern areas.
My guy was a bit of a jack of sll trades. But he was known as a game hunter. Amongst other jobs... not an engineer like Robert Watson.
My guy was a bit of a jack of sll trades. But he was known as a game hunter. Amongst other jobs... not an engineer like Robert Watson.
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Not the obvious hint of Port Jackson, is it?
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Ray, Captain Cook named Port Jackson after Sir George Jackson, one of the Lord Commissioners of the British Admiralty, and Judge Advocate of the Fleet.
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So I am at a loss finding names to search.
The only likely suspect on Google Maps is Dolans Bay, named after Dominick Dolan, although his profession is not specified in Wikipedia.
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"I refuse to drink water, because of the disgusting things fish do in it"
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Ray
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"Insufficient data for a meaningful answer."
Isaac Asimov, "The Last Question"
"I refuse to drink water, because of the disgusting things fish do in it"
W.C.Fields