Wednesday news

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Wednesday, September 01, 2004

*Massive Coast Guard buoy washes up on Fripp Island
-Beaufort Gazette, 9-1-04

*HUNTING ISLAND: Funds earmarked, but renourishment project might not get started until next year
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 9-1-04

*Georgia's blue crab industry says it needs help
-Brunswick News, 8-31-04

Stamps Page 2.

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It was of course Captain James Cook who in 1770 discovered the East coast of Australia. I quote from his Journal entry of Wednesday the 22nd of August 1770:

" I now once more hoisted the English Coulers and in the name of His Majesty the King, George the Third, took possession of the whole of Eastern coast ( of New Holland ) from the above Latitude down to this place by the name of New South Wales."

In 1888, he appeared on the first ever stamp to carry his head, the 4 pence stamp issued in New South Wales to celebrate their Centenary. In 1960, when Decimal currency was introduced into Australia, Cook was featured on a 75 cent stamp, which had previously been issued as a seven and sixpence stamp, the equivalent value prior to Decimal currency. James Cook was one of the famous six Navigators on the
1999 mini sheet of stamps.

Governor Arthur Phillip. 1738-1814.
The first Governor of New South Wales and the founder of Sydney. He returned to the Royal Navy to be promoted to Rear Admiral in 1789, and was made Admiral of the Blue in 1814, the year of his death. He was pictured on a 33 cent stamp.

George Bass. 1771-1803?
A naval surgeon who loved the sea, and accompanied Matthew Flinders charting the southern coastline of Australia. Bass Strait was named in his honour by Flinders. Bass sailed from Sydney in 1803 to travel to South America, never to be heard of again.

In 1963 a stamp for 1 Pound was issued to remember Bass, to be reissued as a $2 stamp in Decimal currency. He also features as one of the 6 Navigators in the 1999 mini sheet stamp issue.