Penal

Visited the Museum of Sydney and learned about the First Fleet which founded the penal colony of Australia.The HMS Sirius was later wrecked on a reef off Norfolk Island.The first Governor of New South Wales, Admiral Arthur Phillip, sailed with the fleet.Aboriginal artifacts from around Sydney harbour.Portraits of my old friends Elizabeth and Governor Lachlan Macquarie.Samples of the goods from all over the world which poured through Sydney.Another interesting list of conversions.The Luna Park in Sydney was built in the 1930s.The Ghost Train fire in 1979 killed six children and one adult.Wasn’t this in the new season of Twin Peaks?

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