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South Sea Whalers boiling blubber c1876

South Sea Whalers boiling blubber c1876

By

Oswald Walters B Brierly

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a128893 / DG 366]

(Dixson Galleries)

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Brierly, Oswald Walters B

State Library of New South Wales

Economy

With the arrival of Europeans, the traditional economy of Aboriginal clans was disrupted, and gave way to the convict economy of the Commissariat and government stores. But this closed economy was soon opened by free settlement, whaling and sealing, shipping and farming success, making Sydney the port for a vast hinterland. Depressions and booms alternated, bringing poverty and prosperity to the city. Sydney's growth and diversity mean that regional economies now exist within the Sydney region.

Sydney's whaling fleet

Whaling was the other industry, apart from wool, that sustained the colony of New South Wales through its port, Sydney, in the first half of the nineteenth century.

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Whaling