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

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

New South Wales was discovered and named by Captain Cook, who landed in Botany Bay, a few miles north of Port Jackson, on the 28th of April, 1770.

From Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil by Willoughby, Howard