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 • Jan. 25, 2024

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 • Jan. 25, 2022

In 1818, Mak Sai Ying, a young man from Guangdong, stepped off a ship in Port Jackson, becoming one of the first recorded Chinese immigrants to the continent.

From New York Times • May 7, 2018

First, adventurers and whalers and convicts who’d served their time in the penal colony in Port Jackson turned up in Tahiti.

From National Geographic • Dec. 30, 2017

Before leaving Sydney, the grand park, called “The Domain,” which stretches down to the blue water in the picturesque indentations around Port Jackson, must be mentioned.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Whymper, Frederick