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    Ulimaroa is a place mentioned in the journals of James Cook and Joseph Banks. Cook and Banks heard of it from the Maoris, who claimed that it lay many...
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    Admiralty agreed that the continent should be known officially as Australia. Ulimaroa was a name given to Australia by the Swedish geographer and cartographer...
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    troops in the Gallipoli campaign. They travelled from Wellington aboard the Ulimaroa, arriving in Sydney on 2 February 1915. Andrew Fisher and Defence Minister...
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    Drillham is a rural town and locality in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Drillham had a population of 126 people....
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    set in Australia (which is termed Nya Holland, or New Holland, and also Ulimaroa) Amorina (1822, rev. 1839), novel Drottningens juvelsmycke (1834), novel...
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  • Kuomintang to travel to Wellington, New Zealand, in August 1915 onboard the Ulimaroa. Like in Australia, he was exempted from anti-Chinese immigration restrictions...
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  • by means of the Hotel Australia station and the fitted-for-wireless RMS Ulimaroa. This was claimed as an Australian first. In a sideline story, the journalist...
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  • 1918, the 2nd Light Horse Regiment sailed for Australia on the transport Ulimaroa in mid-March 1919. Sailing via Colombo, Fremantle, Melbourne, and Sydney...
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    his way from Oxford to France. Purdy left Auckland on 19 April by the Ulimaroa for Sydney, where he joined the Australian boxing team. The boxers left...
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  • Antwerp to Melbourne in Australia at a cost of £15. He then sailed on SS Ulimaroa to Port Chalmers, the harbour town serving Dunedin, arriving late in October...
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