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| | Role of Captain Arthur Phillip R.N., after whom Port Phillip was named |
 | | It was on that date that Captain Cook took possession 'of the whole eastern coast, from latitude 38°S. to this place, latitude 10.5°S., in right of His Majesty King George the Third', i.e. |
 | | Captain Cook's claim, made 17 years earlier than the proclamation by Governor Phillip, had as its southern limit the latitude of 38°S and had thus not included any part of Port Phillip Bay, its coastline and hinterland south of a line between a point a little south of |
 | | Before the British occupation of the Port Phillip District, which was the name used for the area that later became the Colony, and then the State, of Victoria, the land around Port Phillip is believed to have been occupied, for tens of thousands of years, solely by aboriginal people, of whom there were relatively few. |
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