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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

He did not succeed, and returned to Port Jackson to pursue his enterprise himself.

From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Cochrane, Robert

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