Far Kurnell - a photobook

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A photography book, titled ‘Far Kurnell,’ that investigates the surreal southern-Sydney suburb of Kurnell. - KurnellOn April 28, 1770, the greatest British explorer of his time, Lt. James Cook, sailed his ship around a craggy peninsula and into a shallow bay on the east coast of Terra Australis Incognita, the ‘unknown land of the South.’ In need of fresh supplies, he dropped anchor inside the bay’s southern headland and, with a sizeable crew, attempted to land on a rocky stretch of coast. According to the journal of botanist Sir Joseph Banks, two Gweagal warriors sought t ...

Read More o resist their arrival:“[they were] in all appearance resolved to dispute our landing to the utmost, though they were but two and we thirty or forty at least.”A barrage of musket-fire drove them back. Cook and his crew came ashore and so began the colonial story of a region that would one day come to

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