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01-September-2014
01-September-2014

Photographs supplied by Graeme Saunders

The quilt commemorates the bicentenary of the arrival of the First Fleet in Australia in 1788.  

The Bicentenary marked the 200th anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet in Sydney in 1788. Captain Arthur Phillip (1738–1814), commander of the First Fleet, established the foundations of a British colony at Sydney Cove on the 26 January 1788.

Location

Address:80 Head Street, School of the Air, Alice Springs, 0870
State:NT
Area:AUS
GPS Coordinates:Lat: -23.678054
Long: 133.866002
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Monument Type:Art
Monument Theme:Landscape
Sub-Theme:Settlement
Actual Event Start Date:26-January-1788
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Actual Event End Date:26-January-1988
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Source: MA
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