New South Wales? Australian history? of its kind in the Colony?
Is this a part answer? On 29 April 1770, Captain Cook dropped anchor just inside the headlands on the southern shore of Botany Bay. In seeking to replenish his water supply, he was unable to locate fresh water on the south side of the bay, so he dispatched a boat to the northern shores where suitable fresh water was located in " Captain Cook's Waterhole". Cook's party included two botanists - Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander. Their diaries describing the general terrain and plant life that they found provide us with valuable background information as we co-operate with the National Parks and Wildlife Service to combat the recent intrusion of bitou bush, lantana and other noxious weeds and restore the original native plants and wildlife of the area. It was at that time that Cook's log recorded the first rest of an Englishman on Australian soil. He wrote that: " .. the body of Forby Sutherland, one of our seamen who died last evening, was buried on the south side of the bay in an area which I have named Sutherland Point in his honour.. " ------------------- Barry Graham Frankston, Vic.
White Hill Cemeterya big From the Bendigo Cemetery Trust website. White Hills Public Cemetery Corner of Holdsworth Road and Plumridge Street, White Hills...
