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22 unusual facts about Port Jackson


De Havilland DH.51

The first aircraft was exported to Australia in 1927, as a floatplane it capsized in Sydney Harbour in January 1931.

Grevillea

The timber from which the veneer was made, referred to as 'beef wood', was sent from Port Jackson by Surgeon-General John White, who arrived in the new penal colony of Australia with the First Fleet.

HMQS Gayundah

In 1917, due to the threat posed by German raiders such as SMS Seeadler, Gayundah patrolled off Port Jackson and in the Spencer Gulf, although she made no contact with enemy ships during this time.

Jacob Nagle

The ships of the First Fleet subsequently moved up the New South Wales coastline, under the direction of Captain Arthur Phillip, soon finding refuge in a splendid harbour which would become known as Port Jackson.

Jervis Bay Territory

Survivors of the Sydney Cove shipwreck in 1797 reached the area by foot, heading to Port Jackson.

Musk Lorikeet

The Musk Lorikeet was first described by ornithologist George Shaw in 1790 as Psittacus concinnus, from a collection in the vicinity of Port Jackson in what is now Sydney.

Nepanthia belcheri

Nepanthia belcheri is native to the Pacific coast of Australia from the Low Islands in Queensland to Port Jackson in New South Wales.

Nimrod Islands

The Nimrod Islands were a group of islands first reported in 1828 by Captain Eilbeck of the ship Nimrod while sailing from Port Jackson around Cape Horn.

Pademelon

The name is a corruption of badimaliyan, from the Dharuk Aboriginal language of Port Jackson (Sydney region).

Penaeus esculentus

In 1879, he described Penaeus esculentus in a paper in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, basing his description on material in the Macleay Museum which had come from Port Jackson and Port Darwin, and noting that P. esculentus is "the common edible prawn of Sydney, and Newcastle, etc.".

Percival Stacy Waddy

After acting for a short period as curate to Bishop Stretch at Newcastle, New South Wales, he was given the difficult parish of Stockton, New South Wales on the other side of the harbour, then much overloaded with debt.

Port Jackson

The first recorded European discovery of Sydney Harbour, was by Lieutenant James Cook in 1770 - Cook named the inlet after Sir George Jackson, (one of the Lord Commissioners of the British Admiralty, and Judge Advocate of the Fleet).

Port Jackson shark

The Port Jackson shark (Heterodontus portusjacksoni) is a nocturnal, oviparous type of bullhead shark of the family Heterodontidae, found in the coastal region of southern Australia, including the waters off Port Jackson.

Port of Cork

The Port of Cork is a vast area and is the second biggest port in the world after Port Jackson in Sydney Australia.

Queen Elizabeth II Quay

2.) the Quay is a very small feature of the river estuary on which it was built— it is this estuary which has carved out what is the largest natural harbor on the African continent but still puts this harbor behind Port Jackson in Sydney, Australia, and several natural harbors claiming the title for world's second largest, including Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia, Poole Harbour in Dorset, southern England, and Cork Harbour in County Cork, Ireland.

Smilax glyciphylla

It was used medicinally in the earliest days of the colony of Port Jackson for treating scurvy, coughs and chest complaints.

Stewart Island / Rakiura

The island received its European name in honour of William W. Stewart, who was first officer on the ship Pegasus, which visited from Port Jackson (Sydney), Australia, in 1809 on a sealing expedition.

Syrnola simplex

The type specimen of this marine species was found off Port Jackson, New South Wales, Australia.

Te Pahi

In 1805 Te Pahi was the first influential Māori leader to visit Port Jackson (Sydney) where he met Samuel Marsden.

The Odd Angry Shot

The two friends look out across Port Jackson quietly reflecting on their experiences as the film ends.

Vanvoorstia bennettiana

The alga has only been found in two localities; both in or near Sydney Harbour.

William Sharp Macleay

Macleay was interested in the natural history of Australia, the marine fauna around Port Jackson in particular.


Colville, New Zealand

Beyond it lies 28 kilometres of rough road leading to the small settlement of Port Jackson, close to the peninsula's northwesternmost point, Cape Colville and 20 km to Port Charles on the northeastern side.

Daniel Woodriff

Calcutta then sailed alone to Port Jackson to take on a cargo of 800 tons of timber before sailing back to England via Cape Horn and Rio de Janeiro, arriving back at Spithead on 23 July 1804, completing a circumnavigation in ten months and three days.

King Expedition of 1817

From Port Jackson, Mermaid sailed south down the east coast, then west through Bass Strait and along the south coast.

Persoonia hirsuta

First collected by John White in the vicinity of Port Jackson (Sydney) in 1794, Persoonia hirsuta was described by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon in his 1805 work Synopsis Plantarum.