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WEBNational Library of Australia. Join astrophysicist and author Karlie Noon in conversation with Celeste Carnegie the latest instalment of our Deadly Dialogues series onsite or online at 6pm 2 October. Australians have often gone to great lengths to see their favourite sports teams, even back in the 1860s! Book launch: Townsend of the Ranges by ...
Newspapers - National Library of Australia
WEBOct 8, 1990 · Our Library cooperates with the state and territory libraries through the Australian Newspaper Plan to collect, preserve and provide access to Australian newspapers, with each library taking responsibility for newspapers published in their jurisdiction. Overseas newspapers—we have the largest collection of …
First Fleet - National Library of Australia
WEBFirst Fleet. Transportation to the Australian colonies began in 1788 when the First Fleet, carrying between 750 and 780 convicts plus 550 crew, soldiers and family members, landed at Sydney Cove after an eight-month voyage. Over the next 80 years, British courts sentenced more than 160,000 convicts to transportation to Australia.
Subordinate legislation - National Library of Australia
WEBSeries titles for legislation often change over time. You can use GovPubs to help track these. For example, Commonwealth regulations were officially known as statutory rules, and were published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette from 1901 to 1903.. An unofficial edition of regulations was also published by the Law Book Company covering the period 1901 – 1927.
Convicts - National Library of Australia
WEBBackhouse, Edward, A chain gang, convicts going to work near Sidney [i.e. Sydney], New South Wales, from A narrative of a visit to the Australian colonies, 1843; nla.obj-138467394 From January 1788, when the First Fleet of convicts arrived at Botany Bay, to the end of convict transportation 80 years later, over 160,000 convicts were transported to Australia.
Australian Web Archive - National Library of Australia
WEBThe PANDORA Archive – this was the first web archiving program and was opened by the Library in 1996. It is selective in what it gathers, usually collecting by theme or event, like an election campaign. The Australian Government Web Archive – a collection of Commonwealth Government websites which are gathered multiple times each year.
Trove turns a new page - National Library of Australia
WEBJun 3, 2022 · Volunteers sought to open the books on Australian history Since 2009, the Australian community has been making recorded history easier to find online. They do this by accurately transcribing text from scanned newspapers so it becomes part of the Trove search engine. Now, Australians will be able to volunteer their time to do the same activity on historical magazines, newsletters, almanacs and ...
James Cook's Endeavour Journal - National Library of Australia
WEBLieutenant James Cook’s 753-page account of the voyage of His Majesty’s Bark Endeavour (also known as HMS Endeavour) from 1768 to 1771 is the story of one of history’s greatest journeys of discovery. By the end of the epic voyage, Cook had charted the coastlines of New Zealand and eastern Australia. His gifted botanists Joseph Banks and ...
Queensland - National Library of Australia
WEBThe Queensland Pioneers Index 1829-1889 CD-ROM includes church records of baptisms and burials from 1829 and marriages from 1839. It also includes births, deaths and marriages recorded under the compulsory registration system introduced in March 1856 whilst Queensland was still part of the colony of New South Wales.
The Straits of Magellan: the Atlantic to the Pacific map
WEBSep 13, 2022 · The Magellan Strait is a 560 km long, 3–32 km wide channel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that separates the mainland of Patagonia from the archipelago of Tierra del Fuego. The labyrinth-like strait now has names like Famine and Tortuous Passages describing its topography. The map was …