Sentences with phrase «white settlers arrived»

The drive also includes the historic spot on Alki Beach where the first white settlers arrived in Seattle and spent the winter of 1851 before retreating to the less blustery site on Elliot Bay that became downtown.

Along the Cascadia segment, geologists could find no evidence of major quakes in «all of recorded history» — the 140 years since white settlers arrived in the Pacific Northwest and began keeping records.

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White settlers, many of whom were convicts sent there involuntarily, started arriving in Australia in the late eighteenth century.

The first permanent white settler at Hervey Bay was Boyle Martin who, with his wife and child, arrived in 1863.

In Shannon Te Ao's installation «With the sun aglow, I have my pensive moods», commissioned for the Edinburgh Art Festival, the New Zealand artist begins to intone a 19th - century lament for a Māori princess afflicted by leprosy (a disease which arrived with white colonial settlers), his heavy voice flecked by drones and the rustling of foliage.

White settlers first arrived in the early 1800's when fur trading posts were founded in the area.