The first reported visit to King George Sound by a European was in 1791 by the English explorer Captain George Vancouver. Vancouver named it King George the Third's Sound after the reigning monarch.Th ...
Melville Island known in the Tiwi language as Yermalner lies in the eastern Timor Sea, off the coast of the Northern Territory, Australia. It is west of the Cobourg Peninsula in Arnhem Land and north ...
Edmund Lockyer, (21 January 1784 – 10 June 1860) was a British soldier and explorer of Australia.Born in Plymouth, Devon, Lockyer was son of Thomas Lockyer, a sailmaker, and his wife Ann, née Grose. ...
Fort Dundas was a short lived British settlement on Melville Island between 1824 and 1828 in what is now the Northern Territory of Australia. The establishment of the settlement caused the border of N ...
All of Cobourg Peninsula is part of Garig Gunak Barlu National Park, which also encompasses a few nearshore islands. Mostly a tourist attraction, it is known for its pristine wilderness. It is home to ...
The largest settlement on Bathurst is Wurrumiyanga (known as Nguiu until 2010), in the south-east, with a population of around 1,450. Located on the south east corner of Bathurst Island, Wurrumiyanga ...
In 1803, 30 years before the founding of Melbourne, Sullivan Bay in Sorrento became the site of Victoria's first mainland European settlement.Due to a lack of fresh water the settlement was short live ...
George Bass was born on 30 January 1771 at Aswarby, a hamlet near Sleaford, Lincolnshire, the son of a tenant farmer, George Bass, and a local beauty named Sarah Nee Newman. His father died in 1777 wh ...
The trees grow to a height of 50–65 m, with straight vertical trunks and symmetrical branches, even in the face of incessant onshore winds that can contort most other species.The young leaves are awl ...
The Treaty of Tordesillas was intended to solve the dispute that had been created following the return of Christopher Columbus and his crew. On his way back to Spain he first reached Lisbon, in Portug ...
The term administration, as used in the context of government, differs according to jurisdiction.United States Main article: Executive (government)In American usage, the term refers to the executive b ...
To the north across Old Windsor Road the next suburb is Winston Hills; to the east is Old Toongabbie; to the south-east, the next suburb (and railway station) is Pendle Hill; to the south is Girraween ...
Parramatta is the major transport hub for Western Sydney, servicing trains and buses, as well as having a ferry service.At the 2011 census, 38.4% of Parramatta's workers travelled to work on public tr ...
The Darug people who lived in the area before European settlement regarded the area as rich in food from the river and forests. They called the area Baramada or Burramatta ('Parramatta') which means ...
Any decision to change the date of Australia Day would have to be made by a combination of the Australian Federal and State Governments. In recent years such a move has lacked sufficient support, with ...
