Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more | Joined | September 1st 2008 | Trips | 0 |
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Jim Mathieson
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I first saw this headstone as a child in about 1953. The part that has stayed in my mind since is the semicircular bible quotation at the top: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right. Genesis 18.25. This is on the memorial to six of a family of eight who perished just before arrival in a new country. The surviving family members, Eva and Robert in Scotland must have had an unshakeable faith to choose those words.