This stone marker stands beside the South Coast Highway in Western Australia, about 4km west of Ravensthorpe. It stands on the 120 degrees east meridian, which is the baseline for Western Standard Time.
We noticed this bust of Arthur Phillip in St Mary-le-Bow church (below) last time we were in London. It is part of a memorial to the Royal Navy officer, who was the first Governor of New South Wales and died 200 years ago on 31 Aug 1814.
Arthur Phillip, the first Governor of New South Wales, died 200 years ago tomorrow – on 31 August 1814. This statue of him stands atop the Arthur Phillip memorial in the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney.
When we were in Sydney a few weeks ago, we went for a walk in the Royal Botanic Gardens and noticed this interesting sundial in the herb garden. It is in the shape of an armillary sphere (a star map) and has bas relief images of herbs around the horizontal ring.
We noticed this arch while walking through the Domain in Sydney, and were immediately reminded of a similar looking arch at South Cottesloe beach in Perth (below). Not surprisingly, they are both by the same artist – Peter Lundberg, an American sculptor.
The one above is “Barrel Roll” and was exhibited at Sculpture by the Sea in Bondi. The one below is Wuyi (as in the Chinese mountains) and was exhibited at Sculpture by the Sea in Cottesloe.
We saw another line while we were in Sydney recently, or two of them in fact. At Circular Quay there are these plaques in the pavement, showing where the shoreline was in 1788 when the first fleet arrived, and also in 1844. There is no actual line, so you have to do a mental join-the-dots puzzle to visualize what the shoreline looked like.