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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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