Putting Australia on the map
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e heard few complaints voiced when, in 1970, Australia issued commemorative stamps to mark two hundred years since the British Royal Navy’s intrepid sea captain, James Cook, landed at Botany Bay. Nowhere on any of the five stamps in the block does the inscription make a statement about taking possession; but his journal recorded another event several days later, by which time the had sailed to the extreme north of the continent and into the Torres Strait. Cook, with a few crew members, then landed on a small off-shore island, which he named Possession Island, where he performed a brief ceremony and later wrote in his journal: ‘I once more hoisted English Colours, and in the Name of His Majesty King
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