Port Jackson

American  

noun

1. an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in southeastern Australia: the harbor of Sydney.

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Port Jackson British  

noun

1. an inlet of the Pacific on the coast of SE Australia, forming a fine natural harbour: site of the city of Sydney, spanned by Sydney Harbour Bridge

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Example Sentences

The holiday marks the arrival of 11 British ships carrying convicts at Port Jackson in present-day Sydney on Jan. 26, 1788.

From Seattle Times

Argument rages over how history should remember a fleet of 11 British ships carrying a human cargo of convicts arriving at Port Jackson in present-day Sydney on Jan. 26, 1788.

From Seattle Times

Indeed, he was so popular that in 1815 New South Wales Governor Lachlan Macquarie presented him with a brass breastplate as a reward for his loyalty, along with a large piece of land at George's Head, Port Jackson.

From BBC

The Investigator arrived back in Port Jackson in June 1803, having completed its circumnavigation of Australia but having failed to fully survey the entire coastline.

From BBC

Vila Pouca and colleagues incubated Port Jackson shark eggs in seawater 3 degrees Celsius above today’s average maximum temperatures in their habitat off eastern Australia.

From Scientific American