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TOP END HERITAGE PARK
​East Point 
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A Stronghold for Tourism, Education, Training & Community Identity.

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The Pre-fabrication of Australian History began centuries ago with the Macassan trepang fishermen from Sulawesi bringing pre-fab bamboo and woven cane panels for their shelters, awnings and smokehouses. The Dutch pre-fabricated the ship 'Wessel' which accompanied the Klein Amsterdam on the ill-fated voyage of Gerrit Pool in 1636 for which the Wessel Islands are named. The British pre-fabs at Fort Dundas in 1824 went to Fort Wellington & in 1829 went to Albany WA. The practice continued at Fort Victoria and Escape Cliffs huts which with other stray kit & a basket of fruit came to Port Darwin in 1869.

Rebuild It & They Will Come

Nothing to see in Darwin? - Now we can reconstruct these nationally important structures through the discovery of detailed scale drawings plus first-hand accounts, sketches, paintings and photographs. Archaeological Reconstruction is a proven method of gaining insights, engaging with the community and developing tourism.  It is done successfully around the world and East Point is the ideal location to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Fort Dundas - the 1st free settlement in Australia - even the convicts were volunteers & more than a quarter of them were "Men of Colour".
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Fort Ross

Resources & Opportunities

Fort Dundas - Melville Island - 1824/29

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The two houses in the fort below were pre-fabricated in Sydney - relocated to Fort Wellington and in 1829 relocated to the new Swan River colony along with the hospital and all the other movable buildings. 1824 was the year that the British Admiralty recognised the naming of the newly discovered continent 'Australia'. Prior to this Australia did not exist - ergo Fort Dundas was the first settlement in Australia - it's where penal colonies ended and Australia began. The bicentenary is 5 years away.​
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1824 Tiwi grave Bathurst Is. JS Roe sketchbook
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Fort Dundas 1824 by JS Roe - he would become 1st Surveyor General of WA

Fort Wellington - Raffles Bay - 1827/29

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Fort Victoria - Port Essington - 1839/48

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Victoria Settlement, Port Essington 1839 - Mitchell Library
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Victoria Square, Port Essington 1839. Lithograph from Voyage au Pôle Sud et en Océanie by Jules Dumont d'Urville
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Victoria Square Port Essington by HS Melville. The Storehouse at right was a 2 storey building as shown by Owen Stanley.
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nla obj-148363905 detail Port Essington Hospital
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SLNSW f.119 Fortress Port Essington Owen Stanley
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NLA Victoria Settlement - McArthur 1839
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The burial ground, Port Essington, c1848 John McArthur. George Lambrick at tomb of wife Emma & 2 children. Oldest grave of white woman in Nth Australia
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Fort Palmerston - Escape Cliffs - 1844/46

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B-7194 Storehouse and assistant storekeepers residence 1865 H&H
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SLV IMP25096512 The Forlorn Hope by McMinn
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B-22003 Escape Cliffs, Government House - man with gun is D.T. Manton
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B-31111 The Horsehide Boat
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B-7195 The man with a gun is Clement Young, clerk and accountant to the NT Survey in 1865-6 Hamilton & Hake
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B-7196 Escape Cliffs 1865

Fort Hill - Port Darwin - 1869/

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B-3239 Hoare 1869
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Joseph Brooks 1870c
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SLSA B-5039 - 1878 Foelsche
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Palmerston - Port Darwin 1880/90's

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SLSA B-5060 Foelsche
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B-24245 Foelsche 1888c Drwn Archery Club
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Moo Tai Mue Chinese Temple - Fisherman's Joss House at Doctor's Gully Darwin c1900. A prayer furnace at right NTL PH0238/0489.
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NLA catholic church pre 1897 - Bleeser
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Pre-fab metal huts at Goyder's Camp - SLSA Sweet 1870 B-4656 a
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SLSA B-46855 Palmerton sawmill
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NLA stitch - Cnr Mitchell St & Esplanade

Macassans - Marege Coast - c1650/1907

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Trepang Fishers Raffles Bay Emile Lassalle pub 1846
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c Macassan Smokehouse - Wellington Ranges CCMcK
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Macassans at Victoria, Port Essington, 1845, by HS Melville

Aboriginal Dwellings

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SLSA B-46854 Pt Essington 1877 Foelsche - boathouse at rear.
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SLSA B-46853 Ab dwelling - Foelsche
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Darwin 1890 - Foelsche NLA Collection
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Darwin 1890 - Foelsche NLA Collection
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SLSA B-24176a 1894 near Darwin - Foelsche
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JS Roe - Tiwi funereal henge &Tutini Poles - Bathurst Island 1824

THE BUSH

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SLSA Foelsche c1891 - The Crayfish at the Victoria River - landing stores for the VRD & beyond.
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SLS AB-72249
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nla.pic-an11360266-79 Miners Hospital, Shackle, November 1879
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B-24198 Alexandria Station 1894 c
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NLA Foelsche Collection - Southport
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Glencoe Station Foelsche SLSA B46806
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B-73207 Edith Crossing Mail Station 1880

Mining 

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SLSA B-24187-19
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SLSA B-24187-17 Foelsche Zapopan Mine

Missions 

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nla 146759709 BIM from Brother's Qtrs JPCampbell 1912
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Tiwi - Axel Poignant
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1916 1st building Goulburn Is. still standing just.

Overland Telegraph

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Sweet 20 - Port Darwin Telegraph Station
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1st OT Pole H141648 - Sweet

Watering Holes

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B-5057 Playford Club Hotel Pine Ck 1891
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NTRS Foelsche Commercial Hotel Darwin

Scale & Locations

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Fort Wellington stockade at Myilly Point
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Fort Dundas on old hospital site
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4 forts on old hospital site
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Assortment of buildings on Myilly Point

Overseas Examples of Heritage Parks

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Fort Vancouver
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Fort Ross USA


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