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Brian Hinton Fletcher
Bicentennial Professor of Australian History, University of Sydney. Author of Colonial Australia before 1850 and others.
Brian Hinton Fletcher,
D.N. Jeans
Associate Professor of Geography, University of Sydney. Author of The Open Air Museum: The Cultural Landscape of New South Wales; editor of Australia: A Geography (2 vol.).
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New South Wales, state of southeastern Australia, occupying both coastal mountains and interior tablelands. It is bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the east and the states of Victoria to the south, South Australia to the west, and Queensland to the north. New South Wales also includes Lord Howe Island, 360 miles (580 km) east of the continent. The state capital is Sydney, the country’s largest city. The site of the first British settlement in Australia in 1788, New South Wales is today the most populous and, after Victoria, the most industrialized state in the Commonwealth of Australia. Originally the ...(100 of 13139 words)

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