“…at 4 AM fired a Gun and made the Signal to weigh, weigh’d and made sail, in Company with the Hyaena – Frigate, Supply Armed Tender, Six Transports and Three Store Ships, at 9 fired a Gun and made the Sig’l for the Convoy to make more sail.” With these…
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Australia Philately: 1986 The Decision To Settle
Australia Post will release a set of four stamps on 6 August 1986 as part of the continuing series of Australian Bicentennial issues. The stamps feature portraits of the principle people in the decision to establish a convict settlement on the shores of New South Wales. Britain had used transportation…
View More Australia Philately: 1986 The Decision To SettleAustralia Philately: 1986 The Decision To Settle – $1 Captain John Hunter
Phillip’s second-in-command was Captain John Hunter. Initially, Hunter had been considered as an alternative to Phillip to command the First Fleet. As it was, he held a dormant commission to succeed Phillip as Governor should Phillip die or be incapacitated. Indeed, when ill-health forced Phillips’ return to England in 1792,…
View More Australia Philately: 1986 The Decision To Settle – $1 Captain John HunterAustralia Philately: 1986 The Decision To Settle – 33c Captain Arthur Phillip
Captain Arthur Phillip was chosen as Captain General of the First Fleet and Governor-in-Chief of the penal colony to be established in New South Wales. He had a reputation as a competent, trustworthy officer and an excellent administrator. Furthermore, he had experience in transporting convicts and in farming and land…
View More Australia Philately: 1986 The Decision To Settle – 33c Captain Arthur PhillipAustralia Philately: 1986 The Decision To Settle – 33c Lord Sydney
Secretary of State in the Home Office, Lord Sydney, was given the responsibility for finding a solution to the convict problem. It was he who advised the Treasury and Admiralty of the decision to send convicts to Botany Bay. He subsequently administered the preparations of the First Fleet and the…
View More Australia Philately: 1986 The Decision To Settle – 33c Lord SydneyAustralia Philately: 1986 The Decision To Settle – 33c King George III
King George III was the reigning monarch through this eventful period of British history. He was reputed to be obstinate. rash and tyrannical, and through his political ineptitude had been blamed for inciting the American War of Independence. However, it was he who approved the funds for Cook’s voyage which…
View More Australia Philately: 1986 The Decision To Settle – 33c King George IIIAustralia Philately: Australia Post Stamp Bulletin No.184 – July 1986
Australia Philately: 1986 Flora of Cook’s Voyage
Banks had two artists on him. Alexander Buchan died during their stay in Tahiti so the task of graphically recording the startling botanical finds rested solely with Sydney Parkinson. In order to acomplish this monumental task Parkinson developed a kind of artistic shorthand. He drew outline sketches of the plants,…
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