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New South Wales
On 13th May 1787, Captain Arthur Phillip left England with eleven ships filled
principally with soldiers and convicts. He landed successfully at Botany Bay on 18th
January 1788, but found the position too exposed and moved to Port Jackson, a few
kilometres further north, and established a new settlement there on 26th January 1788.
The new settlement was to become Sydney and the new colony New South Wales,
Sydney being named after Lord Sydney, the British Secretary of State for Home Affairs,
who had authorised the colonisation scheme. There were 1,373 new settlers, of whom
732 were convicts.
Now New South Wales is the most populous of the Australian states with 6.5 million
people, almost exactly one-third of the total population of Australia. Many visitors see
only the coastal areas, but inland lies a different type of outback terrain well worth
investigating. Your impression of the state, and indeed of Australia, will be totally
different depending on whether you have simply followed the tourist groove up the coast
or whether you have explored the splendour of the interior.
Transport in New South Wales is operated under the generic name of Countrylink. The
only services not under the control of Countrylink are the city and medium distance rail
services around Sydney, which are operated by CityRail; the city and large town local
bus services, the long-distance interstate bus services operated by Greyhound and just a
few intra-state privately operated bus services.
Countrylink operates trains to Brisbane, Murwillumbah, Armidale, Moree, Dubbo,
Broken Hill, Canberra, Griffith and Melbourne, and a network of bus connexions from
those trains to places all over the state. If you purchase either a national or a state rail
pass, you can use all of these services. With the national pass, you can use the CityRail
metropolitan and medium-distance services as well.
Albury-Wodonga
Albury-Wodonga is a twin city on the Murray River border between New South Wales
and Victoria. Albury is on the New South Wales side and Wodonga, the smaller of the
two, on the Victorian side. Albury to the north and Wodonga to the south. Albury is
572km south west of Sydney.
Albury Regional Museum
There is a collection of local history artifacts in this former hotel that was built in 1884.
Wodonga Place.
Ettamogah Pub
A result of a series of cartoons by Ken Maynard of an Australian drinking establishment.
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