Day: Usually on Tuesday Morning for Breakfast Meeting
Time: 7:15am - 8:30am
Location: Piato Restaurant 123 Blues Point Road, McMahons Point NSW
Please Join Us
We welcome new members and visitors.
We are men and women who meet regularly in North Sydney for fellowship, networking and breakfast! It's a great way to make new friends. We come from many walks of life and backgrounds with a common goal - service to the community (local and worldwide) through fellowship.
Our meetings are both informative and informal, with interesting and varied speakers.
They finish punctually to allow us all to continue our busy days.
We are men and women who meet regularly in North Sydney for fellowship, networking and breakfast!
It's a great way to make new friends. We come from many walks of life and backgrounds with a common goal - service to the community (local and worldwide) through fellowship.
Come and hear Ian Burnet tell this fascinating story
The reef-strewn passage between the Australian mainland and Papua New Guinea remains the most hazardous of all the major Straits in the world. It is 270 kilometres long and only 150 kilometres wide but contains over 274 islands, islets, coral reefs and coral cays and its waters are full of potential hazards separated by narrow and often dangerous channels.
This talk will follow both the history of the Torres Strait Islanders and of the first European voyagers who tried to find their way through the Torres Strait and the numerous shipwrecks that occurred in the process. It was the early navigators such as Torres, Cook, Bligh, Flinders and King who contributed to the charting of this dangerous passage. However, it was not until the completion of detailed hydrographic surveys undertaken by the British Admiralty in the 1840s, the advent of steamships and the introduction of Torres Strait Pilots that it could ultimately be used as a major shipping route.
Ian Burnet has a combined Bsc. In Geology and Geophysics and has an interest in maritime history and historic maps. He is the author of six books on maritime history and the Indonesian archipelago including: Spice Islands, East Indies, Archipelago - A Journey Across Indonesia, Where Australia Collides with Asia - The Epic Voyages of Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, The Tasman Map and Joseph Conrad's Eastern Voyages.
Guests are always welcome.
Our annual “The World Festival of Magic” show will be held on the 9th of November at Norths Cammeray. This is our major fund raising of the year.
We are very grateful to the business community of Northern Sydney for their continued support of this wonderful event.
This was our club’s 7th year of involvement with the World Festival of Magic which has presented shows in Australia for 34 years.
This year our major beneficiaries will be StreetWork , providing support to vulnerable young people in Northern Sydney to turn their lives around and Royal Far West, providing health, education and disability services to children living in Rural and remote areas of Australia.
For further details see the World Festival of Magic.
Location: Piato Restaurant, 123 Blues Point Rd, McMahon’s Point.
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Location: Piato Restaurant, 123 Blues Point Rd, McMahon’s Point.
Breakfast Meetings where we discuss and agree the organisation/projects to be supported and our plans to provide resources and/or funds to achieve it.
Time:7.15am
We look forward to welcoming you.
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