Human time and geologic time are not easy to reconcile, and yet, as Ben Dibley observes, now that we have become a “geological agent,” we need to simultaneously conceptualize “temporal scales that once appeared incommensurable.”46. The stuff seems to be pure pigment. Against this possibility, my investigation of the 1880s reclamation of the Elizabeth Bay foreshore on Sydney Harbour, Australia, is a work of recall or recovery. Trigonometrical Survey of Port Jackson the City of Sydney and the Suburbs, sheet no. We live in the Quaternary, the period that began with the onset of the northern hemisphere glaciation 2.6 million years ago, an event experienced in Australia in the form of a drier, colder climate and radically lower sea levels. Such remains, including stone tools, charcoal from campfires, and shell midden deposits, have been recorded and excavated by archaeologists elsewhere around the harbor and have been found to date from the period after the sea reached its present level 2,000 years ago.38 Mostly we are oblivious to these things as we walk about the park, several meters above, but we are in touch with them insofar as we are in touch with a reclamation deposit that is in touch with them. We’re moored about a mile out and even so we have only about 3’ under the keel at low tide. . I was already deeply asleep by then and didn’t hear it, though probably would have done eventually had not The Captain woken me first with a flash-light and irritable demands for bug spray, a fly swat, help searching for the offending insect, anything to silence the din. The ‘bark petition’, as it has become known, led to the passing of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976, under which all land in East Arnhem has been recognised as Aboriginal land. Whoever pushed a cigarette butt into one of the cracks (fig. Found inside – Page 95MISGIVINGS - TRIBES OF BOTANY BAY AND PORT JACKSON MANLY COVE AND RUSHCUTTERS ' BAY . ... seemed to menace from the land the ships and their occupants . The Governor called the settlement ‘Henrietta Town’ and the bay ‘Elizabeth Bay’ after his wife, Elizabeth Henrietta. Joshua Reno, writing about landfill on the edge of Detroit, observes, “Mass waste comes to rest in places that are considered empty. This comes to mind when you see maps such as those showing the history of reclamation in Macao, in which the extensive tracts of new land skirting the “original” islands of Macau, Taipa, and Coloane look very like a surge of land flooding into the sea.29. . Elizabeth Bay is located on the eastern side of a ridge along the Potts Point Peninsula. Ma et al., “Rethinking China’s New Great Wall.”, 6. The eastern-most boundary stretched from the present-day junction ofElizabeth and Albion Streets to the south-eastern corner of Hyde Park and thence toWoolloomooloo Bay. Plants, buildings, and infrastructure spread across the surface and subsurface, exaggerating the reclamation’s appearance of longevity and making it more difficult for us to recall or imagine the beach or marshland it displaced. Photos/Australia/Gugari-Rip-Hole-in-the-Wall/. We bellowed back and agreed to meet there, which was a pleasant prospect as it had been a considerable while since we’d had company. 14. Though these would ordinarily indicate the entrance to a harbour they’re placed right amidst the numerous moored yachts, which was puzzling. I decide to wait until the dark, warm water actually floated the dinghy rather than try to hurry the process by dragging it. We acknowledge the impact Elizabeth Farm has had on Aboriginal Country and that this impact continues to be felt today. Barad, “Nature’s Queer Performativity,” 47. Charles Boydell (1808-1869) emigrated to New South Wales in 1826 accompanied by George Townshend, a fellow Welshman, and both took up land grants on the Allyn River, at Gresford, NSW. The infill has taken on a life of its own, but this is a life continuous with and entangled with human life, as illustrated in the way earthworms bury human artifacts. Alcaro Bay, Cape Don , Cobourg Peninsula September 8th. Elizabeth Bay Elizabeth Bay/ Elizabeth Point: honours Governor Lachlan Macquarie's wife, Elizabeth. I wished the Captain had been there too, as he would have enjoyed it. From that perspective it seems entirely unsurprising that it was there, while sitting on a reclamation, that the sea came flooding into me. 53. This means the surface of the harbor is readily deformed by the agency of wind and rain. Many of the moored yachts there looked ready to join the wrecks on the bottom any day. Found inside – Page 80Elizabeth Jane Macpherson ... Mud Bay').169 The decision in Blue Mud Bay focused on section 70(1) of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act, ... Birch et al., “Reclamation in Sydney Estuary.”, 3. It can cause skin irritation and respiratory distress’. City of Sydney Archives, Entrance to apartment building in Elizabeth Bay. Archaeologists increasingly appreciate the falsity of historicism’s claim that the past lies behind us, neatly stratified in sequential order.56 We see that the past continues to be materially present in palimpsest form. During Lachlan Macquarie’s tenure as governor, from 1810 to 1821, a neat row of bark huts was built for Aboriginal people on the narrow band of flat land behind the Elizabeth Bay beach, just above where I sunbathed in 1980. This wasn’t the first time he had lost a hook. This was another wide, shallow bay and we anchored far out from shore in 12’ of water. The 19 studies brought together in this book present an overview of current issues involving Indigenous placenames across the whole of Australia, drawing on the disciplines of geography, linguistics, history, and anthropology. A chart of the main clan names for the Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney section, including historical spellings and a description of country. The object of my attention is the Elizabeth Bay reclamation, and in approaching it I step forward not as a stranger but as someone with a personal history of the place. 20. The clear blue sky was painted with scarlet and gold clouds in swirling veils and the sun was a bloated fiery ball as it sank below the horizon. Lewis et al., “Post-Glacial Sea-Level Changes.”, 2. As European use of the area rose, Aboriginal use declined. Photos/Australia/Guruliya-Bay-to-Cape-Hotham/, Guruliya Bay/Raragala Island – September 1. A. L. Lloyd, December 1881. After a year living in Elizabeth Bay, I moved on to a series of rental addresses elsewhere in the city, very rarely returning there. In doing so, the sandstone appears to be at least as amenable to the sea’s impetus as it is to the human intention for it to defend the reclamation against the sea. Despite the bark huts and fishing boats the area had little appeal for the Aboriginal Population who had sustained themselves through fishing, long before Macquarie had arrived. However, many boats take this route through the Wessel Group because it saves a good day’s sailing. They give a shudder, then stiffen and become still.). These curvaceous forms suggest the metaphor of the fold in Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, mentioned earlier, and Gilles Deleuze’s work on folded matter in Leibniz, the Baroque, and the world at large.49 The kneading/folding metaphor has a key role in Serres’s account of nonlinear time and history, an account in which events from different eras bend toward each other, becoming adjacent or coexistent and evoking the figure of a “crumpled handkerchief.”50 In Steven Connor’s words, this gives us an image “not of time moving on and dissipating, but of endlessly regathering itself.”51 I think of the small harbor waves that regather themselves to break once more against the seawall and of how my own history involves a gathering and regathering at this reclamation across the span of thirty-six years. Council Valuation Records for 1948 identify No. In the two decades after 1835, a total of 30.7 hectares was reclaimed; see Birch et al., “Reclamation in Sydney Estuary,” 353. Mmm! Traces of Aboriginal presence earlier than 7,000 BP could also be present. We paralleled the shoreline of Raragala Island after our little adventure. Governor Lachlan Macquarie set aside land near Elizabeth Bay as a ‘model fishing village’ for Aboriginal people in 1820. James Cook – man, mariner, myth or monster. Soluble airborne salts from the harbor have penetrated the sandstone and crystallized there, causing disaggregation.45 What should always have been obvious to me was that the quartz grains falling from the eroding sandstone were not just accumulating on the beach; they were the beach, which is to say they had assimilated into the mix of quartz grains already there. I turn to see a dog chasing down a ball on the lawn behind me, and when I look back there is only the harbor, that more abstract entity, barely tangible in its givenness. . In so doing, it renders the familiar unfamiliar.11. We could also see that the water’s surface within the Rip itself was preternaturally smooth. The signs I’d read during my walk along the shore that day came to mind: ‘NO SWIMMING – Blue Green algae has been reported in the water in this area. Let me take you back to the late 1800s. 29. The eighteen essays gathered in this book explore Brown’s investigations into the surprising range of interactions among Indigenous people and newcomers as they met or observed one another from a distance, and as they competed, ... As twilight fell, it was so quiet that we could hear the evening chorus on shore as birds settled for the night and bats flew over the treetops in large flocks, chittering noisily. I thank Ian Hoskins for drawing my attention to these maps. Lambeck and Nakada, “Late Pleistocene and Holocene Sea-Level Change”; Attenbrow, Sydney’s Aboriginal Past, 38. At that point, the embayment at Elizabeth Bay took form. 26. Speeches … Sydney Art Deco & Modernist Walks book captures sights of Potts Point and Elizabeth Bay The tiny one-square-kilometre precinct of Potts Point and Elizabeth Bay is a national treasure, containing the best collection of some 100 Art Deco (1930s and 40s) … We emerged into a wide bay and a dry, low landscape with white sand beaches and scrub. ... Australian livestock worker and activist Vincent Lingiari fought for Aboriginal land rights. Finally a taxi driver whom I’d helped earlier with his new touch-pad mobile phone returned the favour by taking me to the right place to buy what was needed. A short walk to Birdie Beach, it’s a great spot to stop for lunch and a swim. The Aboriginal settlement and/or small airstrip on the other side of the island must be provided with a really strong 3G network! If, for argument’s sake, we take 1945 as the Anthropocene’s starting point, then clearly by 1980 I was living well inside that new era.53 However, the Holocene lingered on as a state of mind long after 1945, and I now wonder whether the golden tinge, which, when I look back, seemed to suffuse my life in 1980, owed something to the long drawn out Holocene sunset. This location was a purpose chosen site offering perfect conditions for the Pinctada maxima pearl shell to … 42. Internet access may be limited during the next 2-3 weeks! Extensively quarried from 1788, it immediately became the stone of choice in the colony for the construction of houses and public buildings and for paving, curbstones, walls, and bridges. Reclamations are not against nature, but they are examples of the kind of “artificial ground” whose rapid expansion during the modern era is widely taken to be a stratigraphic indicator of the Anthropocene.36 At Elizabeth Bay, the infill deposit forming the reclamation comprised soil and human refuse transferred there from elsewhere, together with sediments from the adjacent harbor floor transferred by a pump dredge located just offshore, all of this contained within the sandstone seawall.37 It is likely that the part of the deposit furthest in from the wall rests on ground containing archaeological remains of the camp set up by Governor Macquarie for Aboriginal people in the second decade of the 1800s, along with the remains of Aboriginal occupation predating European arrival. On the disaggregation of sandstone in Australian heritage buildings, see Swan, “Modes of Decay.”. 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