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Bennelong

Eora interlocutor with the British in Australia and the United Kingdom · Australia · On the map · Lived 1764 to 1813 · aged 49

Woollarawarre Bennelong was a senior man of the Eora, an Aboriginal Australian people of the Port Jackson area, at the time of the first British settlement in Australia. Bennelong served as an interlocutor between the Eora and the British, both in the colony of New South Wales and in Great Britain.

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He was the first Aboriginal Australian to visit Europe and return.

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Australia
Status
Deceased
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Lived 1764 to 1813 · aged 49