Quest to return Gweagal Shield removed from Botany Bay by James Cook in 1770

By Jim Gainsford
Updated November 1 2016 - 10:21am, first published October 26 2016 - 3:30pm
Return to country: Aboriginal activist Rodney Kelly wants the Gweagal Shield, in the British Museum, returned. Picture: Rohan Thomson
Return to country: Aboriginal activist Rodney Kelly wants the Gweagal Shield, in the British Museum, returned. Picture: Rohan Thomson

Sutherland Shire Council has called on the British Museum to return to the historic Gweagal Shield, spears and artefacts taken by Lieutenant James Cook at the first contact between Europeans and Aboriginal people at Kurnell, Botany in 1770.

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