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Port Macquarie, town and seaside resort of northeastern New South Wales, Australia. It lies on the Pacific Ocean coast, at the mouth of the Hastings River. The location of what is now the port was sighted by the explorer John Oxley and named by him for the colonial governor Lachlan Macquarie. A penal colony was established there in 1821, and, after it was abandoned in 1830, Port Macquarie received free settlers and developed an export...

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