Fish rail and early ferry services

and early ferry services

An extraorinarily detailed map of Mosman and the North Shore

‘Yarra Yarra’ is believed to be the aboriginal name for The Falls

looking towards the Melbourne Aquarium

Australian Ringneck

Fish rail and early ferry servicesCreator D'Urville Dumont Date 1829 From Dumont D'Urville's Voyage of the Astrolabe 1826 1829. . Comte Jules Dumont dUrville sailed to Sydney, Hobart and large parts of the Australian coast as part of a lavish expedition of scientific discovery in the Australia Pacific region, including New Zealand and the East Indies. The scientific illustrations are extraordinarily fine. The account of the Voyage of the Astrolabe was published in 1835. The principal