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Barangaroo (c. 1750 – c. 1791) was an Aboriginal Australian woman best known for her interactions with the British colony of New South Wales during the first years of the European colonisation of Australia.
She also launched a Sydney Harbour cruise called Underwater Secrets' – Sydney Harbour Revealed, [8] which focuses on scientific research into the waterway. As president of Science & Technology Australia, Professor Johnston is also a public advocate for science and for increasing the participation of women in research. [citation needed]
Jessica Watson OAM (born 18 May 1993) is an Australian sailor who was awarded the Order of Australia Medal after attempting a solo circumnavigation [1] at the age of 16. . Although she circled the planet, she did it in a narrow range of latitudes that resulted in her voyage falling short of the distance criterion of 21,600 nautical miles (40,000 km) for a circumnavigation – the equivalent of ...
Kathleen M. Butler (27 February 1891 – 19 July 1972) was nicknamed the "Godmother of Sydney Harbour Bridge" [1] and also known as the "Bridge Girl". [2] As the first person appointed to Chief Engineer J. J. C. Bradfield's team, as his Confidential Secretary, (a role which today would be called a technical adviser or project planner), she managed the international tendering process and ...
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (September 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This is a list of notable inhabitants of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards ...
Mrs Macquarie's Chair (also known as Lady Macquarie's Chair [1]) is an exposed sandstone rock cut into the shape of a bench, on a peninsula in Sydney Harbour.It was hand carved by convicts in 1810, for Elizabeth Macquarie, the wife of Major-General Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales.
In the minutes before, a countdown was projected onto the Sydney Harbour Bridge, with thousands joining in for the final 10 seconds, before the sky was illuminated over the famous opera house ...
Sydney Harbour from Milsons Point by Tom Roberts, 1897. Artists' camps flourished around Sydney Harbour in the 1880s and 1890s. Sydney's first newspaper was the Sydney Gazette established, edited and distributed by George Howe. It appeared irregularly between 1803 and 1842, but nonetheless provides a valuable source on the early development of ...