Author: Fairley, Alan; Weber, Erwin (illustrator); James, Lynn (flower drawings).
Title: Map: Kurnell Peninsula: Australia's Birthplace.
Description: Sydney Pacific Maps, 1970. Ephemera, folded map, very good condition, sepia (brown-tinted) drawings & photos, pages lightly toned, few tiny holes, bottom corner front cover creased, minor edgewear. pp. This map shows and gives the history and other details about the many places of interest in this historic part of southern Sydney. The Kurnell Peninsula is an ancient island of Hawkesbury Sandstone linked to the mainland at Cronulla by a sandspit. Kurnell is almost completely surrounded by water. Kurnell claims the title Birthplace of a Nation as it here that on April 29th 1770 that James Cook of H.M. Bark Endeavour made his first landing on Australian soil. (No date, about 1971 or later. Latest date in text, 1969. Seven-digit STD Sydney phone numbers, which started in 1971.).

Keywords: ephemera, maps, earth sciences, geography, australia, new south wales (nsw), sydney, kurnell


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