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Eating oysters from the rocks on Clark Island 1870

By
Montagu Scott
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a3449002 / ML 3]
(Detail from 'A day's picnic on Clark Island 1870') (Mitchell Library)

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Scott, Montagu

State Library of New South Wales

Sydney rock oysters

Gathered by Aboriginal people for thousands of years before the Europeans arrived, Sydney oysters became a farmed product in the 1870s and remain a popular seafood.

Eating and Drinking

Animals

Women

A Day's Picnic on Clark Island

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Oil painting depicting a day on the island in 1870, donated to the Mitchell Library in 1930.

Clark Island

Island in Sydney Harbour off Darling Point, part of the Sydney Harbor National Park

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