[Editor: This poem by L. E. Homfray was published in the Darling Downs Gazette, 11 March 1921.] Our Debt of Honour. They died to guard our honour, They died that we might live, And we, in very honour, Our humble homage give. They left their home and country, And all that men hold dear, To […]
Who named Australia? [letter to the editor, 14 June 1905]
3 December 2016 by · Leave a Comment
[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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