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Botany Bay, New South Wales 1824

By
Joseph Lycett
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a2799065 / DSM/Z/C 989, Plate 10]
(from: 'Views in Australia, or, New South Wales & Van Diemen's Land delineated : in fifty views with descriptive letter press ... /' by J. Lycett, published London: J. Souter, 1824-25)

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Lycett, Joseph

State Library of New South Wales

Aboriginal people of the Cooks River valley

For the Eora people, the Cooks River valley was a crossroad for trade, social and ceremonial networks but when the first European settlers ventured south, their explorations brought death and destruction to the clans

First people of the Cooks River

From beyond the time when the river flowed as Europeans came to know it, and long after its banks were dotted with farms, Aboriginal people have had a strong connection to the Cooks River.

Botany Bay

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

Cooks River

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River that flows through south-west Sydney, starting at Graf Park, Yagoona, through to Botany Bay at Kyeemagh. The river was extensively polluted by industry and its course was changed to accommodate the runways of Sydney Airport.