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Geographic Locations > Islands > Australia > New South Wales
Environment and Public Health > Environment > Islands > Australia > New South Wales
... > Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Islands > Australia > New South Wales
Geographic Locations > Oceania > Australasia > Australia > New South Wales

Preferred term

New South Wales  

Type

  • Geographical Descriptor

Broader concept

Note

  • a state of Australia

Scope note

  • A state in southeastern Australia. Its capital is Sydney. It was discovered by Captain Cook in 1770 and first settled at Botany Bay by marines and convicts in 1788. It was named by Captain Cook who thought its coastline resembled that of South Wales. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p840 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p377)

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  • 88

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