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La Perouse, Botany Bay 1878

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La Perouse, Botany Bay 1878

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Thomas George Glover

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La Perouse

Traditionally owned by the Kameygal, whose descendants still maintain their connection with the land, La Perouse has a history of both invasion and survival. Unwanted by the early colonists who thought it unhealthy, the area was an Aboriginal camp throughout the nineteenth century, though also used for government purposes, such as quarantine and signalling. During the 1930s Depression, unemployed people set up camp there. Repeated attempts to move Aboriginal people away from La Perouse failed, and since 1984 the reserve has been Aboriginal land.

Botany Bay

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Large bay south of the city of Sydney, into which the Cooks and Georges rivers run.

La Perouse

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South-eastern residential suburb on Botany Bay, named after the French explorer who landed there in 1788. It has a large Indigenous population, including those who can trace their ancestors back to the Kameygal people in pre-contact times.

Laperouse Monument

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Monument erected with funds left by Hyacinthe de Bougainville in 1825 to mark the Pacific voyage of Jean François de Lapérouse from 1785 until its disappearance in 1788.