On This Day - 11 February 1788

HMS SIRIUS landed a party on Garden Island, Sydney, to prepare a ship’s garden. Three sets of initials, ‘FM’, ‘IR’, and ‘WB’, were carved on a rock on the northern hill. These are now the oldest marks extant made by white men in Australia.

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