by Mark Mckenna
Storey, Captain James, 7
Sullivan, Loretta, 199, 200, 208
Sweatman John, 84, 85, 90–1, 93
Sydney, early: British and Eora people, 29; convicts, rum fever and escape plot, 49–50; convict cottages, 37–8; Government House, 38–9;Tank Stream, 38
Sydney Cove, 42, 46, 57, 68; bicentenary of wreck, 59; broken up, 51, 52, 53; divers find remains, 61; landing, Furneaux Archipelago, 12–13; Lascar crew, 10, 11, 47; logbook, 54; relics, 61, 62, 62; sails from Calcutta, 8–10; shipwrecked, 2, 9–13; significance of story, 60; wreck washed away, 51
Tamar, 66, 67
Tasmania, 1, 10; failed Risdon Cove settlement, 105; Furneaux charts, 12
Taylor, William, 135
telescope: Banks at Botany Bay, xii, xiii–xiv, xv; Cook observes transit of Venus, xviii; development of, xiii; Port Jackson observation post, xiv
Tench, Lt Colonel Watkin, xiv
Thatcher, Richmond, 145
The Beagle, 81, 148
‘the Burrup’ see Burrup Peninsula
the carpenter (Sydney Cove), 12, 14, 16, 21, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 40–1, 63
Thomas, WL, 50
Thompson, Hugh (Sydney Cove), 9, 12, 36; longboat, 16, 17–18; near-drowning, 33; skeleton found, 40; walk to Sydney, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 29–30, 31, 32–3, 34–5, 37
thylacine engraving, Angel Island, 160, 161, 162
Tomakin, 33, 35
Tongue, CH, 174
Tupia, 190
Tuross, 31–2
Twofold Bay, 27–8
tyranny of distance, xvii
Vairasse, Denis, 117
Victoria Settlement see Port Essington
Virili, Enzo, 150
Wakathuni Hill, 153
walk from Ninety Mile Beach, Vic. to Sydney, 19, 23; Aboriginal middens, 24; and Aboriginal people, 20, 21–2, 23, 25, 26–8, 31–2, 33, 36, 40; ancient Aboriginal paths, 25; beauty of countryside, 23, 24–5; bush tucker, 35; canoes, 32; carpenter and Thompson left behind, 36, 37; countryside today, 24; dependence on Aboriginal guides, 33; drinking water, 35; fatigue and injuries take toll, 35; Lascars, 21, 32–3; Nadgee Nature Reserve, 25; Nadgee River, 25–6, 26; numbers reduced to five by Shoalhaven, 35; re-enactment, 61; relations with Aboriginal guides deteriorate, 36; river crossings, 21, 24; setting out, 19–20; story ‘passed out of memory’, 61; temptation to halt, 35; Twofold Bay, 27, 28; walkers weakening, 28–9; weapons and provisions, 20; see also Clark, William, leads walk to Sydney
Wandandian people, 33–5
Watson, Captain JH, 57
Watson, John, 136–7, 138; evidence on Flying Foam Massacre, 137–8; Pearling in 1868: A Tragic Adventure, 142–3
Watson, Mary, 180–2, 181, 182
Watson, Robert, 180
Wattamolla, 36
Welcome (barque), 57
‘Welcome to Country’ ceremonies, 34
Wellesley, Marquess, 5
West Arnhem Land see Port Essington
Western Australia: Aboriginal labour force, 123; Aboriginal land becomes Crown land, 123; Aboriginal people, 150; camps and reserves, 143; citizenship, 143; concern at ‘Asiatic’ influx, 146; convict labour, 123; debate on treatment of Aboriginal people, 138–9; developing the north, 146–7; drought, 126; Gregory’s report encourages colonisation, 123; iron ore, 145–6; joins Australian Federation, 138; land grants in the ‘North’, 123; Mount Tom Price, 146; North West Shelf gas fields, 146, 147; pastoral industry, 124–6; pearl industry, 126–7; Perth, 146;The Pilbara, 146, 147; Roebourne first town in north-west, 124; settler anxiety in 1880s, 139; spinifex, 125; treatment of north-west indigenous people debated, 138; see also Burrup Peninsula
White Australia Policy, xviii
White, Ellen, 201
White, James, 131
Wickham, – (Beagle), 148
Wickham, WA, 147
Wik decision, 154–5
wildlife, introduced, 106
Williams, Fred; ‘Pilbara’ paintings, 153–4, 154
Wingan Inlet, 23
Winton, Tim, xvi
Withnell, Emma, 126; on Aboriginal women, 142
Withnell, John, 126, 130, 131, 132–3, 134, 141, 143, 145
Withnell Bay, 147
Withnell expedition, 136–7
Wonboyn, 27
Woodside Petroleum, 147; Karratha Gas Plant, 115, 116; Pluto Gas Plant and rock art removal, 155
World’s End see Port Essington
Wreck Bay, 33–4
Yaburara people, 116; Angel Island massacre, 135, 144, 159; contact with Europeans, 120; culture destroyed, 128–37; ‘extinct’, 145; hunt for killers continues, 135; impact of British settlement, 144; and King, 118–19; King judges them ‘primitive’, 120; and pearl industry, 127; rock art custodians, 124; and settler influx, 123–4; smallpox epidemic, 126; society, 124; see also Flying Foam Massacre
Yaburara Heritage Trail, 129
Yeranabie, 50
Young, Lola, 154
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