Sydney Cove Convict Settlement
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Cartographic Name
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Sydney Cove Convict Settlement
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Identifier
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SITE-SYDC
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category
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Penal Settlement
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temporalCoverage
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1788-present
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sourceOrganization
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Britain Home Secretary
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text
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"There was no need of lock, of door, of wall; this was a prison whose bars were ten thousand miles of water.
" Historical Fiction. Grenville, Kate. The Secret River. Text Publishing, 2005, p.3.
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"Mahroot claimed that he was the last male survivor of the original people from around Botany Bay at the time of Cook." Historical Monograph. Mahroot (Gadigal). “Minutes of Evidence Taken before the Select Committee on the Aborigines, 1845.” Quoted in Maria Nugent, Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet. Allen & Unwin, 2005, p.30.