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Hacking River

The Hacking River is a watercourse located to the south of Sydney, New South Wales in Australia. For thousands of years the indigenous Tharawal (or Dharwal) people called the river Deeban. British colonial settlers named the river after Henry Hacking, a British seaman, pilot at Port Jackson and explorer in colonial New South Wales, who killed the Aboriginal, Pemulwuy

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The Hacking River is a watercourse located to the south of Sydney, New South Wales in Australia. For thousands of years the indigenous Tharawal (or Dharwal) people called the river Deeban. British colonial settlers named the river after Henry Hacking, a British seaman, pilot at Port Jackson and explorer in colonial New South Wales, who killed the Aboriginal, Pemulwuy

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