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Sydney - Australia
Also Sydney is the oldest and with 3,774,894 inhabitants the largest town of the Australian continent. Moreover, Sydney is capital of the federal state New South Wales. Capital of Australia is, however, Canberra.
Story of Sydney
The area of today's municipal area was settled by aborigines approximately 40,000 years ago.
The "roof ridge canal" reached the Botany Bay southern Captain Arthur Phillip the port Jackson on January 18th, 1788. The entry to the port Jackson already had Captain Cook 1770 records on his boards. At first Captain Arthur Phillip discovered Manly Cove during a three-day reconnaissance tour of the port Jackson and bay which on the name Sydney Cove he baptized further unite one on the other page of the Hanfens day later. This bay is the "roof ridge canal" that the the most suitable place for anchoring for, he decided on January 26th, 1788. with him about 800 prisoners from England exited the ships and hoisted union Jack nearby today's Circular Quay. January 26th is Australia's national holiday since then.
Sydney is the oldest white settlement of Australia and was a colony for prisoners first. The town became the cultural and economic center of Australia later. The town experienced a gold fever repeatedly, the expansion of Sydney got most of European and what a very multicultural flair awards to the town, carried for Asian immigrants later, for the first time 1851..
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