The State Library has recently purchased a circa 1791 map of New Holland:"Chart Shewing the Track of the Waaksamhey'd from Port Jackson in New South Wales - John Stockdale (1750 - 1814).
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March Meeting
The March Meeting will feature a maritime archaeologist Wendy van Duivenvoorde.
Her talk will be : Before Cook: Dutch interactions with Australia prior to 1770
This presentation highlights early Dutch interactions with Australia prior to 1770. It focusses on the earliest known historic accounts and material remains of Dutch-Indigenous interactions on Australian soil. It contributes to our understanding of Europeans active in the Australasian region in the 17th and 18th centuries through the study of maritime archaeological sites and historic research.
Date: Thursday March 25th 2021
Time: dinner 6:00pm, meeting afterwards (8:00 pm)
Venue: Railway Hotel, Port Adelaide.
Please book dinner with Neil 0418 821 331 or Julian 0414 365 294 by 20th March 2021.