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This is the Captain James Cook Memorial Water Jet and the Australian National Library in the background. More on Captain Cook and the water jet can be learned HERE . The jet pumps out water to a height of 147 metres, about six tonne of water is in the air at any one time. (By coincidence, in terms of me taking this photo, the jet and the library were built by the same architectural firm.) There is another element to the memorial, a small fountain/sculpture on the shore but it's quite ugly and you won't be seeing a photo of that from me. The memorial was built to commemorate the bicentenary of Captain Cook sighting the east coast of Australia on April 19 1770. That sighting, in it's full (European) historical context, is the key factor in Australia being settled by the British sixty thousand or so years after it was first settled by the Indigenous people.

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Mikel.