https://thinkingsovereignty.com/2021/08/20/the-invention-of-australia-part-3-port-curtis-and-the-cardinal/ Thinking Sovereignty Sun, 22 Aug 2021 07:23:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 https://thinkingsovereignty.com/2021/08/20/the-invention-of-australia-part-3-port-curtis-and-the-cardinal/#comment-102 Sun, 22 Aug 2021 07:23:04 +0000 https://decolonisethemind.wordpress.com/?p=1981#comment-102 […] Flinders was scouting for a strategic port and settlement. He started with a 1799 expedition of detailed exploring of Moreton Bay (including naming Redcliffe) to Hervey Bay. On Flinders’s later 1802 expedition – Port Curtis was discovered as a decent place for a harbour. Port Curtis later became the capital of the annulled colony of “North Australia“. This is the same Port Curtis that Cardinal Moran claimed Quirós discovered. […]

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