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Coomee Nulunga

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Coomee Nulunga (also known as Maria/Moriah)

c.1829-1914

Coomee Nulunga was a Murramarang woman, born on Yuin country on the South Coast of NSW in the late 1820s. She remembered how her grandmother talked of seeing the ‘great white birds’ arrive decades earlier, a description of what Lieutenant James Cook’s ship would have looked like from the shore as he sailed up the eastern coast in 1770.

Coomee witnessed the arrival of British settlers in the 1830s and 40s

Pigeon House Mountain – Didthul

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The first reference to any feature of the country within a radius of 20 miles of Ulladulla was made by Captain James Cook aboard HMS Endeavour while on his voyage north along the Australian east coast. Two days after his discovery of that coast, at 7am on 21  April 1770, he noted in his private log on 22 April 1770**