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  La Perouse precinct, New South Wales - About Australia
La Perouse is an historical haven that blends Aboriginal, French and Colonial traditions.
Named after the navigator Jean-Francois de Galaup de La Perouse, the first Frenchman to arrive in Australia in 1788, this treasure is resplendent with beaches, bays and bushland.
La Perouse's museum contains original maps, antique scientific instruments and intriguing relics recovered from the wrecks of La Perouse's frigates Boussole and Astrolabe.
www.about-australia.com /new-south-wales/sydney/destinations/la-perouse-precinct   (349 words)

  
  La Perouse, New South Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
La Perouse is a suburb in south-eastern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
The La Perouse peninsula is the northern headland of Botany Bay.
La Perouse is named after Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse (1741-88), who landed on the northern shore of Botany Bay on the 26th January 1788.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/La_Perouse,_New_South_Wales   (780 words)

  
 New South Wales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
New South Wales is Australia’s premier state in more ways than one: it’s not only the oldest of the five states, but it’s the most densely populated too.
Including Sydney, New South Wales covers an area about twice the size of Britain, with roughly a tenth of its population; not a very big state by antipodean standards, but its six and a quarter million residents constitute one-third of the country’s population.
South of Sydney the coast is relatively undeveloped, and there’s a string of low-key family resorts and fishing ports, great for water sports and fishing.
www.pacificislandtravel.com /australia/newsouthwales/nsw_intro.asp   (1178 words)

  
 Protected areas of New South Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Protected areas of New South Wales comprise 549 separate protected areas with a total land area of 49,533 km² (6.18% of the state’s area).
National parks are managed by the New South Wales Department of Environment and Conservation.
Regional Parks are managed by the New South Wales Department of Environment and Conservation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Protected_areas_of_New_South_Wales   (246 words)

  
 La Perouse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
La Perouse, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney
La Perouse Strait, a strait between the Russia island of Sakhalin and the Japanese island of Hokkaido
La Perouse Bay, a bay on Maui, Hawaii
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/La_Perouse   (125 words)

  
 Discoverers Web: La Pérouse
La Pérouse was a great admirer of James Cook, tried to get on well with the Pacific islanders, and was well-liked by his men.
La Pérouse wanted to sail through the channel between Sakhalin and Asia, but failed, so he turned south, and sails through La Pérouse Strait (between Sakhalin and Hokkaido), where he met the Ainu, explored the Kuriles, and reached Petropavlovsk (on Kamchatka peninsula) in September 1787.
La Pérouse sent his journals and letters to Europe with a British ship, obtained wood and fresh water, and left for New Caledonia, Santa Cruz, the Solomons, the Louisiades, and the western and southern coasts of Australia.
www.win.tue.nl /~engels/discovery/perouse.html   (1016 words)

  
 Dictionary of New Zealand MAP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Wales’ (q.v.) chart of New Zealand was re-issued as the BA general chart of New Zealand in 1816 (see Figure 17 this volume – also see the entry in the Chart Catalogue, Figure 2 this volume.
The Frenchmen sighted the west coast of the South Island in the vicinity of the Grey River on 10 January 1827.
Views of coastal parts of New Zealand which are bound in with a journal of the voyage, known as the "State Archives Journal", are usually attributed to Gilsemans, but there is no known evidence which confirms that these sketches or their antecedents were executed by Gilsemans.
delzur_research.tripod.com /nzresearch/dictionary_of_new_zealand_map_makers.htm   (14489 words)

  
 Extra fire crews
The New South Wales Rural Fire Service has moved to quell panic on the state's south coast, where there is an evacuation plan in place.
New South Wales Assistant Fire Commissioner Greg Allan says they are conscious of tiredness setting in for firefighting crews and have put in place plans to combat this.
On the state's far south coast, firefighters are planning a large expansion of their containment lines for a fire burning in remote country in the Deua National Park west of Moruya.
www.fire.uni-freiburg.de /media/news_01042002_aus2.htm   (809 words)

  
 La Perouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
La Perouse is at its most lively on Sunday (and public holidays) when, following a tradition established at the turn of the century, Aboriginal people come down to sell boomerangs and other crafts, and demonstrate boomerang throwing; snake-handling skills are on display from 1.30pm.
The voyage was commissioned by the French king Louis XVI in 1785 as a purely scientific exploration of the Pacific to rival Cook's voyages, and strict instructions were given for Laperouse to "act with great gentleness and humanity towards the different people whom he will visit".
After an astonishing three-and-a-half-year journey through South America, the Easter Islands, Hawaii, the northwest coast of America, and past China and Japan to Russia, the Astrolobe and the Boussole struck disaster - first encountering hostility in the Solomon Islands and then in their doomed sailing from Botany Bay, on March 10, 1788.
www.pacificislandtravel.com /australia/newsouthwales/syd_laperouse.asp   (475 words)

  
 La Pérouse Biography
Jean-François La Pérouse was born in Albi, France in 1871.
La Pérouse was appointed midshipman on 19 November 1756 at the age of 15 or 16.
La Pérouse was commissioned a captain on 11 April 1780 and was put in command of the frigate Astrée.
academic.reed.edu /formosa/texts/laperousebio.html   (525 words)

  
 Estuary Catfish, Cnidoglanis macrocephalus
An Estuary Catfish at a depth of 2.4m, Red Rock Estuary, New South Wales, January 2002.
An Estuary Catfish at a depth of 3m, Bare Island, La Perouse, New South Wales, 1997.
This fish was caught near Newcastle, New South Wales.
www.amonline.net.au /fishes/fishfacts/fish/cmacroceph.htm   (236 words)

  
 Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales
Captain Phillip, as governor of his Majesty's territories in New South Wales, and commander in chief of the expedition, accompanied by twenty of the principal officers, paid his respects to the Marquis de Brancifort, governor of this and the other Canary islands.
The wind south-west by south, the fleet tacked by signal and stood to the eastward.
The new year was introduced with a pretty heavy gale of wind from the northward and westward, which was the first we had encountered since we left England.
gutenberg.net.au /ebooks03/0301531h.html   (18587 words)

  
 New South Wales Golf Club (La Perouse, New South Wales, Australia) - ...
New South Wales Golf Club is a private golf course.
New South Wales Golf Club is a superb venue for corporate golf days.
As a general rule this applies to all holes at New South Wales.
www.golfselect.com.au /armchair/courseView.aspx?course_id=104   (1557 words)

  
 Glass negative, full plate, 'La Perouse Monument, Botany', Kerry and Co, Sydney, Australia, c. 1884-1917 - Powerhouse ...
The Doric stone column memorial is enclosed within a stone and iron fence and is depicted in the centre of the image.
The La Perouse Memorial depicted in this image was designed by George Cookney and erected in 1825 at the instigation of Baron de Bougainville as a memorial to the tragic last expedition of Admiral de la Perouse and his party.
The two structures form the La Perouse Memorial Group and are listed on the Register of the National Estate.
www.phm.gov.au /tyrrell/show.php?id=29   (316 words)

  
 European discovery and the colonisation of Australia - Stories from Australia's Culture and Recreation Portal
The British province of South Australia was established in 1836, and in 1842 it became a crown colony.
South Australia was never a British convict colony, although a number of ex-convicts settled there from other colonies.
On January 1 1912, the Northern Territory was separated from South Australia and became part of the Commonwealth of Australia.
www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au /articles/australianhistory   (2133 words)

  
 Harvard Native American Program: News and Events
Jason Field is from the Yuin Aboriginal nation, whose land is situated on the south coast of New South Wales.
Having lived most of their lives in Sydney, Jason's family is connected to the La Perouse Aboriginal community.
In 1993 he completed the Diplomacy Training Program, conducted by the University of New South Wales, and attended the UN WGIP as an assistant to Commissioner Dodson and the Australian Indigenous delegation headed by ATSIC.
www.ksg.harvard.edu /hunap/news_brownbag04JumbunnaProject.htm   (700 words)

  
 AusEmade: La Perouse (Sydney) Travel Information and Attractions Guide, New South Wales (NSW), Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The same day, Captain Phillip cemented England’s claim to the colony of New South Wales at Camp Cove in Sydney Harbour, he had left the fleet to look for a more protected harbour in which to settle.
La Perouse Monument - raised in honour of La Compte de la Perouse.
There is still a large Aboriginal community at La Perouse, for whom La Perouse, but more so Kurnell where Cook landed, marked the start of the ‘white invasion’.
www.ausemade.com.au /nsw/destination/l/la-perouse-attractions.htm   (543 words)

  
 Sydney Features | Fodor's Online Travel Guide
A fast, demanding game in which the ball can be kicked or punched between teams of 22 players, Australian Rules Football has won a major audience in Sydney, even though the city has only one professional team compared to the dozen that play in Melbourne -- the home of the sport.
02/9661-4455, www.nswgolfclub.com.au) is a rigorous, par-72, 18-hole championship course on the cliffs at La Perouse, overlooking Botany Bay.
This is a fast, gutsy, physical game that bears some similarities to North American football, although the action is more constant and the ball cannot be passed forward.
www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=sydney@153&cur_section=fea&feature=30007   (1618 words)

  
 New Zealand Mathematical Societu Newsletter Number 84, April 2002
I was at the colloquium at Massey in December, the summer workshop of the New Zealand Mathematics Research Institute in Napier in January, and ANZIAM 2002 in Canberra in February.
He is a Principal Investigator in the New Zealand Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (based at the University of Auckland) and the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution (based at Massey University, Palmerston North).
J Dick (University of New South Wales), "An improved bound for the component-by-component construction of lattice rules for multivariate integration".
ifs.massey.ac.nz /mathnews/Nzms84/news84.htm   (7833 words)

  
 Discoverers Web: D'Entrecasteaux
The plan of the voyage was to proceed to New Holland (Australia), to sight Cape Leeuwin, then hug the shore closely all the way to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), inspect every possible harbour in a rowing boat, and then sail for the Friendly Islands (Tonga) via the northern cape of New Zealand.
It was thought that La Pérouse had intended to explore New Caledonia and the Louisiades, to pass through Torres Strait, and to explore the Gulf of Carpentaria and the northern coast of New Holland.
The vain search for La Pérouse was then resumed to Santa Cruz, then along the southern coasts of the Solomon Islands, the northern parts of the Louisades, through Dampier's Passage, along the northern coast of New Britain and the southern coast of the Admiralty Islands, and thence north of New Guinea to the Moluccas.
www.win.tue.nl /~engels/discovery/entrecast.html   (1550 words)

  
 SRA Fact Sheets - La Perouse, New South Wales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
La Perouse - Youth Haven, New South Wales
La Pa Bummer Youth Haven was created by a group of volunteers, and is located in La Perouse, Sydney
La Perouse – 1200, of whom 35 per cent (around 400) are Indigenous
www.indigenous.gov.au /sra/nsw/fact_sheets/nswnov0507_YouthHaven.html   (352 words)

  
 Project profile - Publications - Stronger Families Learning Exchange - Australian Institute of Family Studies
The program involves local families, predominately Indigenous families and community members, from the La Perouse and Matraville Soldier Settlement Primary Schools and the Gujaga Pre School and children from other local schools and pre schools.
The HIPPY program at La Perouse is utilising an action research model to reflect on the effectiveness of the program.
They are documenting the ideas put forward by parents and children about what improvements can be made to ensure the ongoing usefulness of the program to their Indigenous communities.
www.aifs.gov.au /sf/pubs/bull5/hippy.html   (404 words)

  
 The Human Origins Debate in Australia
Cook indicating that not only could the Aborigines of New South Wales be contrasted with the people then living in Africa, they could also be distinguished from their contemporaries in Asia and the Pacific.
Publications describing the autochthonous inhabitants of these new lands appeared by the middle of the seventeenth-century (Jobson, 1623; Purchas, 1625), with the first European ships reaching Australia after passing the west coast of Africa and the Cape of Good Hope in the early seventeenth century.
In the essential details of this Topinard was supported by Davis (1874) and Cauvin (1883), although Cauvin did remark that "one can't tend to recognise that the physionomie of the natives from New Holland is closer to that of the Islands of Van Diemans Land than to the New Guineans" (1883: 248).
www-personal.une.edu.au /~pbrown3/AusOrigins.html   (7110 words)

  
 Timeline 1780-1789
New York was the capital from 1785 until 1790, followed by Philadelphia until 1800 and then Washington, D.C. 1783 Dec 4, Gen. George Washington said farewell to his officers at Fraunces Tavern in NYC.
Her work, lost and forgotten until the publication of a new edition in 1834, was used by abolitionists to prove that fls were not intellectually inferior to white.
In 1790, with construction on the new federal capital underway, the government was moved temporarily to Philadelphia, where Washington served out his two terms.
www.timelines.ws /1780_1789.HTML   (13393 words)

  
 Hordern House
ANTHOLOGY Fleas in Amber: Verses and One Fable in Prose on the Philosphy of Vermin.
FORREST, Thomas A Voyage to New Guinea, and the Moluccas, from Balambangan...
LA PEROUSE, Jean Francois Galaup de A Voyage Round the World, performed in the Years 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788, by the Boussole and Astrolabe, under the command of J.F.G. de la Perouse.
www.polybiblio.com /hordern   (8069 words)

  
 La Perouse, Jean-Francois de Galaup - Bright Sparcs Archival and Heritage Sources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Collection of letters, documents and other papers relating to the expedition to the South Seas with "La Boussole" and "L'Astrolabe" 1781-93 and papers concerned with Dumont d'Urville in search of La Perouse.
Transcripts of documents from the French National Archives of La Perouse's voyage 1785-8.
Pierre Anthonioz's article 'Supplement au voyage de La Perouse' photocopy of an article in "Journal de Geneve" No.114 17-18 May 1958 being a summary of previous investigations at Vanikoro and an account of the work of the 1958 expedition.
www.asap.unimelb.edu.au /bsparcs/archives/P000559a.htm   (170 words)

  
 2003 ANZ Championship | New South Wales Golf Club to host ANZ Championship | iseekgolf.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Tournament Chairman, Steve Frazer, announced today that the ANZ Championship will be staged at the magnificent New South Wales Golf Club at La Perouse in Sydney from February 6 through 9, 2003.
"Along with the ANZ, we are committed to staging the event in New South Wales and are delighted and privileged to be playing at the highest ranked course in the state and a top 50 course in the world", Steve Frazer, said today.
Our members are looking forward to welcoming the PGA Tour back to La Perouse and our course will be in magnificent condition for the tournament".
www.iseekgolf.com /news/1229   (598 words)

  
 The Treasure Chest
"Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales", by John Wright, Surgeon-General to the Settlement, was first published in 1790.
For the first twenty-five years the new inhabitants were confined to the coastal strip around Sydney as no way could be found across the Blue Mountains, part of the Great Dividing Range which runs parallel to the east coast of Australia for almost the coast's entire length.
New areas were opened up for settlement and several expeditions were commissioned by the government and by private backers to ascertain whether an inland sea existed.
www.gutenberg.net.au /newsandreviews.html   (5933 words)

  
 SRA Fact Sheets - La Perouse, New South Wales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The La Perouse community want to improve management of housing and raise awareness of the cultural significance of La Perouse mission.
The community will form a residents’ group to work with the facilitator and the local housing organisation to help resolve tenancy issues.
The New South Wales Government will provide administrative support for the group and the local housing organisation will provide office space and equipment.
www.indigenous.gov.au /sra/nsw/fact_sheets/nswnov0507.html   (211 words)

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