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ZL1ANM > SYDNEY 18.12.05 11:20l 25 Lines 702 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: Stats - Ancestry by birthplace
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From: ZL1ANM@ZL1AB.#11.NZL.OC
To : SYDNEY@WW
>In the 17th century (1770) Captain
>James Cook claimed New South Wales for the British Crown but it was not
>until the 18th and 19th centuries that coastal and interior surveys were
>made.
>If anyonwe thinks any of the above info is wrong, please don't get prickly
>and tell me I'm ignorant - just tell me where I've gone wrong.
>73 - David, G4EBT @ GB7FCR
1770 falls in the 18th (eighteenth) century. A simple typo, I'm sure.
Incidentally, the same Captain James Cook circumnavigated New Zealand
in 1769, charted its coastline, and claimed it for the British Crown.
73 de Neil ZL1ANM
NBF 2.08
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