Event    From 26/1/1788  To 26/1/1788

First settlement in Australia

Categories: Exploring

Countries: Australia

Event

Established at Sydney by Admiral Arthur Phillip.

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
First settlement in Australia

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Admiral Arthur Phillip

{On the west side, beneath the relief depicting a scene with 5 people on a sh...

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Robert Thomas

Robert Thomas

Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.

Person, Exploring, Tragedy

1 memorial
Richard Wall

Richard Wall

Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.

Person, Exploring, Tragedy

1 memorial
Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe

Titular character in the novel by Daniel Defoe published in 1719. See also Friday.

Fiction, Exploring, Fictional, Seriously Famous

1 memorial
Amelia Edwards

Amelia Edwards

Egyptologist, novelist, journalist, traveller. Born Colebrook Row, Islington. First visited Egypt in 1873 and co-founded the Egypt Exploration Fund in 1882. Never married and bequeathed her collect...

Person, Exploring, History, Egypt

1 memorial
Harry D. S. Goodsir

Harry D. S. Goodsir

Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.  A skeleton was found which is thought to be his.  See the picture source for how they did that.

Person, Exploring, Tragedy

1 memorial

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William George Hilton
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Emile Ford

Emile Ford

Musician and singer. Born Michael Emile Telford Miller in Castries, Saint Lucia. His family moved to London in the mid 1950s where he taught himself to play a number of musical instruments. He made...

Person, Music / songs, Caribbean Islands

1 memorial
Poppy window

Poppy window

W2, Connaught Place, 16

We photographed this at first just because it is such a lovely window. Then we noticed that the flowers are poppies, well known to comme...

2 subjects commemorated
H. H. Faldo
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Aboriginal Cricket Association

Aboriginal Cricket Association

We can't find any indication that this group still exists.

Group, Sport / Games, Australia

1 memorial