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Top: sketch of Dawes’s observatory at Port Jackson, April 1788. From William M. Dawes’s correspondence during the establishment of an observatory at Port Jackson, New South Wales. Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library, RGO 14/48: 281-282. Bottom: extract from the meteorological journal of William Dawes documenting the high temperatures and strong north-westerly winds that occurred during a heatwave on 11–12 February 1791 at Sydney Cove.
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