174th AUSTRALIA DAY REGATTA – Tuesday, January 26
Australia Day, 26 January 2010, will mark 174 years of Australians celebrating our National Day by competing in or watching the grand spectacle of the Australia Day Regatta on Sydney Harbour.
The 174th Australia Day Regatta is the world’s oldest continuous annual sailing regatta, a celebration afloat of the day when a small group of sailors, marines and convicts from the First Fleet hoisted the Union Jack on the shores of Farm Cove, founding the colony of New South Wales.
Forty-nine years later, a group of citizens of Sydney decided to celebrate the anniversary of that historic day by staging a regatta, originally called the Anniversary Regatta, now the Australia Day Regatta, which has been held every year since 1837 - in peace and war.
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