Kurnell is the Anglicised version of Cunnel, the land of the Gweagal people. It is the place where Lieutenant James Cook and his crew landed on 29 April 1770 whilst navigating his way up the East Coast of Australia on Endeavour. Cook and his men stayed at Kurnell for a…
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Australia Philately: Cunnel
Cunnel was located in Gweagal, Dharawal and was home to the Gweagal people. The Gweagal people were the guardians of sacred white clay pits on their territorial land. The white clay had a multitude of uses and was used to line the bottom of the canoes to make a base…
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The first voyage of Lieutenant James Cook was a combined Royal Navy and Royal Society expedition to the south Pacific Ocean aboard HMS Endeavour (a converted merchant collier previously named Earl of Pembroke) that occurred between 1768 to 1771. On 16 February 1768 the Royal Society petitioned King George III…
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Arthur Phillip (11 October 1738 – 31 August 1814) was a British Royal Navy officer who served as the first governor of the Colony of New South Wales. Phillip was educated at Greenwich Hospital School from June 1751 until December 1753. He then became an apprentice on the whaling ship…
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