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Port Jackson

American  

noun

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


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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

The centerpiece, though, is a native of Australia by way of a California tree farm: the four-decade old Port Jackson fig, nicknamed Rubi, lowered by crane into the sphere in June.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 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

Port Jackson was reached on the 9th of May 1802.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

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