Bare Island La Perouse Before 1870s
by Miroslava Jurcik
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Bare Island La Perouse Before 1870s
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Miroslava Jurcik
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Photograph - Photograph
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This photograph was taken by an unknown photographer sometime before 1870s, how long before, we don't know. I just enlarged it just a bit and added texture so you cannot see the enlarge pixels.
The original photograph iwas saved and made public by Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Australia .
I wonder how long the island was there ? You can still see all the untouched landscape behind it. It has been estimated that 1,000 to 1,200 Aboriginal people lived around the shores of Botany Bay. They called the Botany area 'Gwea'.
However, the Aboriginal names for Bare Island didn't survive.
The Kameygal set up camps along the banks of the Cooks River and on the northern shores of Botany Bay with the Gweagal mainly on the southern side around Kurnell, although the Aboriginal boundaries are somewhat blurred. The Cadigal were also present but more to the western shores of the bay in areas immediately west of the Cooks River.
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