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Sydney was never "found". Sydney was built on a site in Port Jackson first located by Captain Arthur Phillip in January 1788.

Captain Arthur Phillip led the First Fleet of convicts and officers to New South Wales. The convict colony was meant to be established at botany Bay, which the First Fleet reached on 18 January 1788. Phillip determined that the bay was unsuitable for settlement, so he reconnoitred north to find a better site. He returned to lead the Fleet into Port Jackson and the site where Sydney would be founded, on 26 January 1788.

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