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Bicentennial Fern Garden : 14-April-2013
Bicentennial Fern Garden : 14-April-2013

Photographs supplied by Graeme Saunders

A garden commemorates the Bicentenary of the European settlement of Australia.

The Bicentenary marked the 200th anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet in Sydney in 1788. Captain Arthur Phillip (1738–1814), commander of the First Fleet, established the foundations of a British colony at Sydney Cove on the 26 January 1788. 

Location

Address:Ridgeway, Baromi Park, Mirboo North, 3871
State:VIC
Area:AUS
GPS Coordinates:Lat: -38.400257
Long: 146.155744
Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate.
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Details

Monument Type:Garden
Monument Theme:Landscape
Sub-Theme:Settlement
Actual Event Start Date:26-January-1788
Actual Event End Date:26-January-1988

Dedication

Approx. Monument Dedication Date:1988
Front Inscription

Australia
1788 - 1988

Mirboo North
Bicentennial Fern Garden

An Australian Bicentenial
      Project
To commemorate
The Nation`s Bicentenary
     in 1988

Source: MA
Monument details supplied by Monument Australia - www.monumentaustralia.org.au