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This day His Excellency Governor Phillip signified his intention of sending me to Norfolk Island with a few people and stock to settle it.

Philip Gidley King's diary entry of 1 February 1788, recording the order that led to the first European settlement of Norfolk Island the following month.

Philip Gidley King, Norfolk Island

Source: Philip Gidley King, Journal/Remarks kept on the Expedition to form a Colony... (1786-1790), State Library of New South Wales

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