Norfolk Island – food bowl for Australia’s first European settlers
The Science Show – Broadcast Sat 22 Jan 2022 at 1:01pm
The first European settlement on mainland Australia struggled at first as food supplies quickly became a real concern. Prior to expansion of the settlement west to the Hawkesbury area and the establishment of a farm at Parramatta, Norfolk Island was the closest food source offering wheat, fruit and salted pork. The flagship of the first fleet, HMS Sirius was the main supply ship between the island and the mainland and also the main defence vessel for the colony, but it came to grief at Slaughter Bay on Norfolk when it ran aground in a storm. Pauline Newman visits the Norfolk Island Museum where collections officer Bethany Holland describes some of the objects retrieved from the Sirius and the human stories which accompany them.
Guest : Bethany Holland Reporter : Pauline Newman
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