"Governor Phillip had the satisfaction to find one of the finest harbours in the world, in which a thousand sail of the line might ride in perfect security."
— Australia

January 1, 1970

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Arthur Phillip, on sighting Port Jackson (22 January 1788), paraphrased in The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay (1789), ch. 6