Topics: Environment
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1821 - South West - view
fertile soil produced by flooding
1824 - North West - view
Timbercutters advance
1824 - South Coastal - view
Harbour
1825 - North West - view
inexhaustible body of sea shells, offer a valuable manure for generations to come
1826 - North West - view
open elevated Forest Country
1826 - North Coastal - view
Many
incidents of Aboriginal people defending their land and attacking the English farms
north of Broken Bay. The activities of bushrangers, escaped convicts, cedar
getters, illicit grog suppliers and smugglers create a lawless frontier in the
northern regions. The first Magistrate Willoughby Bean is appointed in a vain
attempt to restore order.
1826 - North Coastal - view
Surviving
Koories are estimated to be only 65 on the Central Coast. Diseases such as
smallpox, syphilis and influenza have killed many and others have been killed
by settlers.
1826 - North West - view
sandstone mountains with deep gorges and razor-back ridges that end suddenly in towering bluffs
1826 - North Coastal - view
Attacks
on settlers continue, and probably are supplemented from warriors coming from
further north. A punitive expedition is mounted by the British against Koories
near Wyong. Twenty Koories are captured and later eight are imprisoned on
Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour. Governor Bourke requests that a school
teacher “should be prepared to teach elements of Christianity to the Aborigines
held there”.
1826 - North West - view
Lake Paterson is one important wetland. It is increasingly drained for agriculture
1826 - North Coastal - view
Expansion of farms leads to cutting Koories off from access
to food from the sea and also from hunting and gathering.
1827 - North West - view
rich alluvial land
1828 - North Coastal - view
William
Cape, one of Wyong’s first farmers, reports that 200 Aboriginal people arrived
on what he regarded as his land and took his potato crop. The visiting
Darginjung tribe from Wollombi claimed that they needed extra food. Some time
later one of Cape’s stockmen is speared. The district constable and 15 armed
men pursue the Aboriginal men. Two prisoners are taken. Magistrate Bean records
that Cape fired his gun at the Koories and had also alienated his sons and
neighbours.
1828 - North West - view
mangrove mudflats