Lake Macquarie History

A century of ships sailing Lake Macquarie 1800-1900

by Col Gibson and Greg Jackson

This article was first published on the Academia research sharing platform (www.acedemia.edu), in September, 2019. We are grateful to the authors for giving permission to make it available on this website.

A century of ships sailing on Lake Macquarie 1800-1900

This work aims to provide as complete and accurate a list as the records would allow, of all ships that sailed on Lake Macquarie, NSW, Australia, during the century 1800 to1900.

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