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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Port Jackson

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

December 30th saw the Beagle on the way to Sydney, and Port Jackson was reached on January 12, 1836.

From Life of Charles Darwin by Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas)