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    King George Sound (Mineng Nyungar: Mammang-Koort) is a sound on the south coast of Western Australia. Named King George the Third's Sound in 1791, it...
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    George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India...
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    King George Sound is a body of water within Norfolk Bay, in Tasmania, Australia. It opens into Norfolk Bay at King George Island and extends to the town...
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  • Wales colonial government, led by Major Edmund Lockyer, landed at King George Sound, and founded what became the port city of Albany. On 21 January 1827...
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    established the first European settlement there with a military garrison at King George Sound, now Albany. The settlement was initially called Frederick Town. The...
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  • The King George's Sound Company, also known as Richard Cadman Etches and Company after its "prime mover and principal investor", was an English company...
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    Vancouver Island, in the Pacific Northwest, historically known as King George's Sound. It separates Vancouver Island and Nootka Island, part of the Canadian...
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    The King George whiting was first officially named by Cuvier in 1829 as Sillago punctata, based on an individual taken from King George Sound in Western...
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    at the northern edge of Princess Royal Harbour, which is a part of King George Sound. The central business district is bounded by Mount Clarence to the...
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    Australia were convicts of the New South Wales penal system, sent to King George Sound in 1826 to help establish a settlement there. At that time, the western...
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    coastlines along the way. He formally claimed at Possession Point, King George Sound Western Australia, now the town of Albany, Western Australia for the...
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    The expedition did not enter King George Sound due to bad weather. In 1801, Matthew Flinders entered King George Sound and stayed for about a month before...
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  • The Madness of King George is a 1994 British biographical comedy drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner and adapted by Alan Bennett from his own 1991...
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    Ataturk Channel (category King George Sound)
    a water channel named after Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and located at King George Sound leading to Princess Royal Harbour in Albany on the south coast of...
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    to him at King George Sound. A similar name was given in various other ways in the early wordlists of Isaac Scott Nind (nailoit) and George Fletcher Moore...
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    Leeuwin (Leeuwin's Land) was the original Dutch name for the area from King George Sound to the Swan River. It was named after the Dutch East Indiaman Leeuwin...
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  • Panoramic View of King George's Sound, Part of the Colony of Swan River is a panoramic hand-coloured print published in 1834 by Robert Havell, based on...
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    specimen was provided by George Grey to the British Museum of Natural History, the skin of a male also collected at King George Sound. The author was aware...
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    Desfontaines, not that of Labillardière The specimens belong to the King George Sound form of the species (since published as A. sericeus subsp. sericeus)...
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    in command of Western Australia's original British settlement at King George's Sound from 1829 to 1831. Mount Barker is situated on Albany Highway, 363...
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    arrive were transported to New South Wales, and sent by that colony to King George Sound (Albany) in 1826 to help establish a settlement there. At that time...
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    Major Edmund Lockyer arrived at King George Sound in the brig Amity, to found a penal settlement at King George Sound. Mokare showed Lockyer and other...
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    he boarded a ship in King George’s Sound heading back to Adelaide. After returning, Eyre were suggesting to the Governor George Gipps the idea to lead...
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    20 January 1818, King anchored in King George Sound, which had previously been visited by only two other British explorers, George Vancouver and Matthew...
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  • The Apostolic Vicariate of King George Sounde – The Sound was a short-lived (1845–47) Latin Rite Roman Catholic missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction in...
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  • Cockburn Sound, Western Australia Denham Sound, part of Shark Bay in Western Australia King George Sound at Albany, Western Australia King Sound at Derby...
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    Puget Sound (/ˈpjuːdʒɪt/ PEW-jit; Lushootseed: x̌ʷəlč IPA: [ˈχʷəlt͡ʃ] HWULCH) is a sound on the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Washington. It...
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  • Te Houhou / George Sound is a fiord of the South Island of New Zealand. It is one of the fiords that form the coast of Fiordland. The fiord is located...
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    It is located about 5 km (3.1 mi) from Albany on the other side of King George Sound. The only residential structure on the Vancouver Peninsula is Camp...
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  • 1867 Lady Lyttleton, British barque, in King George Sound 1868 Northumberland, a wooden barque, in King George Sound 1872 SS Xantho, an iron hulled steamer...
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