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

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

But Arthur Phillip, the new governor, felt it was not suitable and sailed north to Port Jackson, modern day Sydney.

From National Geographic • Dec. 30, 2017

For a few days after the arrival of the Ann at Port Jackson, it seemed as though Marsden's project were going to be helped by another unexpected agency.

From A History of the English Church in New Zealand by Purchas, H. T. (Henry Thomas)