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View of Port Maquarie [Macquarie] N.S. Wales

View of Port Maquarie [Macquarie] N.S. Wales, c. 1825
Augustus Earle
Watercolour
Bequest of David Scott Mitchell, 1910
PXD 265, f. 6

During his visit in 1821, Macquarie established a penal settlement at Port Macquarie for convicts who had committed further offences since arriving in the colony.