NEW SOUTH WALES. Port Jackson, Sidney, Blue Mountains, &c. Letters CXXXVI–CLI

2014 ◽  
pp. 450-521
Author(s):  
Jacques Arago
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Blue Mountains ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Port Jackson

scholarly journals Alessandro Malaspina: An Italian/Spaniard at Port Jackson

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-48
Author(s):  
Laura Olcelli
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
British Colonialism ◽  
The South ◽  
Italian Peninsula ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Spanish Colonies ◽  
Port Jackson

Tuscan-born and Spanish-trained Alessandro Malaspina (1754-1810) captained the most significant scientific expedition ever launched by Spain in the years 1789-1794. After a survey of the Spanish colonies in America, he directed the course of the Descubierta towards the South Pacific and anchored at Port Jackson on 11 March 1793. In my essay I will scrutinize the New South Wales leg of Malaspina’s voyage account, comparing 'Viaje político-científico alrededor del mundo' (the original 1885 Spanish edition) and 'Journal of a Voyage by Alejandro Malaspina' (its 2001 English translation), and integrating them with the captain’s secret reports. The examination of Malaspina’s comments on the infant colony will simultaneously expose the Spanish attitude to early British colonialism in New South Wales, and help assess Malaspina’s complex role as the first explorer who reached Terra Australis from the Italian peninsula.

Pentachondra dehiscens sp. nov. - An aberrant new member of Styphelieae

2001 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 513 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Cherry ◽  
P. A. Gadek ◽  
E. A. Brown ◽  
M. M. Heslewood ◽  
C. J. Quinn
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Blue Mountains ◽  
Strong Affinity ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Cladistic Analyses ◽  
Morphological And Molecular Data ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Styphelieae collected from the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales is described. Cladistic analyses of morphological and molecular data show that the species has a strong affinity with the genus Pentachondra. The genus is redefined to accommodate the following features of the new species: a drupaceous fruit with 6–11 locules in which the mesocarp splits to release the separate pyrenes at maturity and a more complex inflorescence.

Morphologic and molecular redescription of Catostylus mosaicus conservativus (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae: Catostylidae) from south-east Australia

2005 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 723-731 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael N Dawson
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
Port Jackson ◽  
Oral Disk ◽  
South Eastern Australia

Two reciprocally monophyletic mitochondrial clades of the commercially valuable jellyfish Catostylus mosaicus are endemic to south-eastern Australia. Here, medusae in the two clades are shown to differ also in colour and in the dimensions of their papillae, oral disk, and bell depth. They are referred to two varieties recognized in 1884 by von Lendenfeld. The clade occupying localities adjacent to Bass Strait is redescribed as subspecies C. mosaicus conservativus; the clade from New South Wales and southern Queensland spans the type locality (Port Jackson) of C. mosaicus and is designated C. mosaicus mosaicus. Their ecology and colour, in the context of von Lendenfeld's original descriptions, and the implications for fisheries are discussed.

Fishing in Port Jackson, New South Wales–more than met the eye

Antiquity ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 69 (262) ◽  
pp. 47-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominic Steele
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Shell Midden ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Fish Remains ◽  
Port Jackson

Contemporary diaries and the water-colours of artists such as the Port Jackson Painter vividly tell of Aboriginal life when the First Fleet in 1788 settled its cargo of convicts in Australia. Fishing was important around the waters of Port Jackson, whose Aboriginal inhabitants are recorded to have used the techniques of spear-fishing and angling. Were other methods also used? Fish remains from a shell midden provide an opportunity to investigate.

Bathymetric changes in three estuaries of the central New South Wales coast

1980 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 553 ◽  
Author(s):  
E Bryant
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Wave Climate ◽  
Wave Regime ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Northern European ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Marine Sand ◽  
Port Jackson ◽  
Bathymetric Changes

North American and northern European evidence suggests present infilling of estuaries with marine sediment as sea level has continued to rise. Along the New South Wales coast such infilling mainly has ended because sea levels have been stable since 6500 B.P. Bathymetric changes for the period 1868-1974 in three estuaries on the central coast of New South Wales show considerable contrast due to varying estuarine dynamics and sediment availability. Changes in Botany Bay have now stabilized or tended towards slight erosion (- 1332-1547 cm3 m-2 year-1) while changes within Port Jackson seaward of Bradley's Head (-7694 cm3 m-2 year-1) can be linked to dredging activities this century. In Broken Bay, substantial accretion has occurred at the ocean entrance (7684 cm3 m-2 year-1) and around Brisk Bay (5430 cm3 m-2 year-1). The former accretion can be attributed to movement of sediment landward of the 20-m contour under waves characteristic of the present wave regime, and to availability of sediment from adjacent semi-compartmentalized beaches. Such sediment movement and reservoirs do not exist at nearly as large a scale at the mouths of the other two Sydney estuaries. The latter accretion is coincident with the boundaries of marine sand intrusion up the estuary and of fluvial transport seawards. Because bathymetric change in areas of Broken Bay affected by ocean swell can be linked to wave hydrodynamics, changes in the wave climate such as increased storminess can lead to general bottom erosion. Such changes can also exacerbate erosion within Port Jackson and Botany Bay.

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