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Article: Botany Bay: voyagers, aborigines and history. (Interpreting Space/Place).
- Article from:
- Journal of Australian Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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Some time in the mid-nineteenth century a headland on the north side of Botany Bay was given the name La Perouse in honour of the French navigator Comte de Galaup de Laperouse. (1) This memorial gesture was part of a long tradition, beginning in 1788, whereby the headland was made into a site of memory (lieu de memoire) (2) to the French navigator and his expedition. Before officially acquiring the name La Perouse, the headland had been popularly known among the British colonists at Sydney Cove as the French Garden, a name that had likewise mapped the place in the colonial imagination through reference to its temporary occupation by the Laperouse expedition. This ...
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