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George Town (VDL, Tasmania)
Named by Macquarie after George III in December 1811 as the site for a new town on the Tamar River in northern Tasmania.
George Bass and Matthew Flinders named the Tamar River here Port Dalrymple in 1798. The first party of European settlers landed here under Colonel William Paterson in 1804; however, within weeks Paterson had moved to the west bank of the the Tamar at York Town (now called Beaconsfield). Permanent settlement was established in 1811, prior to Macquarie's visit, and officially surveyed in 1813. At Macquarie's request, the administration of northern Tasmania moved from Launceston to George Town in 1819, but returned there in 1824. The anchorage and nearby bays were used by larger vessels until the port of Launceston became more developed in the late 1820's.

Government Hut (near Camden, NSW)
This hut was situated on the northern bank of the Nepean River, at the Cowpasture Bridge, on entering Camden. It is shown on a map of New South Wales by Charles Grimes (Surveyor in N.S.W. from 1790 and Surveyor-General from 1794. Grimes was absent from the Colony on a visit to England from 1803 to 1806 and left the Colony again in 1808). The map is reproduced in Historical Records of N.S.W. vol. VI, opposite p. 410. The date of this map is approximately 1803 with additions to 1806.

Gravesend (Kent, England)
Town and location for Thames River pilot boats; area fringed by wide estuarine marshes and associated shoal flats. Vessels would anchor in Gravesend Reach, which was straight and deep and unimpeded by shifting banks. All movement above Gravesend, both in and out of the Thames was largely governed by the tides.

Green Hills (NSW)
Windsor.

Green-Lythe (Essex, England)

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