[Editor: A poem about an incident on a boat. Published in The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal (Braidwood, NSW), 28 August 1909.] The Faithful Watchman. At the sinking of the dredge recently at Araluen the faithful old watchman (who has passed the allotted span) would not desert his post, because his coat and tucker bag […]
Who named Australia? [letter to the editor, 14 June 1905]
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[Editor: This letter to the editor was published in the The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 June 1905. The writer contends that Pedro Fernandez de Quiros (whose surname was also spelt “Queiros”) named Australia, however, it was the New Hebrides that he named “Austrialia del Espiritu Santo”; Quiros never even saw Australia, and therefore took no […]
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