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Captain Foster Fyans came to Geelong as a Police magistrate in October, 1837. Prior, he was acting commandant of Norfolk Island in 1834. Fyans camped at a location close to the Barwon River. The area became known as Fyansford, now a suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The Fyansford Hotel is located nearby to the site of Fyan's first camp. Map of greater Melbourne showing Geelong to the south west Geelong is a port city of 184,332 people (2001 census) on Corio Bay, 75 kilometres south-west of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. ... A magistrate is a judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law. ... 1837 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Commandant is a military or police title or rank and can mean any of the following: The commander of certain military corps and services, such as the Commandant of the Marine Corps and the Commandant of the Coast Guard in the United States or the Commandant of the (now obsolete... 1834 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Fyansford is a suburb of Geelong, Australia, named after Captain Foster Fyans who came to Geelong as a Police magistrate in October, 1837. ... Geelong is a port city of 200,067 people (2003 census) located on Corio Bay. ...


Ford constructed a rock ford across the Barwon River in 1837, which gave name to the area now known as Breakwater, an eastern industrial and residential suburb of Geelong. The ford stopped the inflow of salt water to the fresh water river, and supplying the town with fresh river water. A ford is a section of water (most commonly a section of a river) that is sufficiently shallow as to be traversable by wading. ... The historic sewerage aqueduct is the longest of its type in the world Breakwater is a residential and industrial suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia, located on the Barwon River, 4 km south-south-east of the Geelong central business district. ...


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Foster Fyans at AllExperts (705 words)
Foster Fyans (1790 - 1870), soldier, penal administrator and public servant, was acting commandant of the second convict settlement at Norfolk Island, the first police magistrate at Geelong, and commissioner of crown lands for the Portland Bay pastoral district in the Port Phillip District of New South Wales.
In 1833 Fyans joined the 4th Regiment at Sydney, New South Wales, and was posted to Norfolk Island as captain of the guard.
In 1839 Fyans was ordered to Portland to investigate claims of "interference with native women" by ex-convict shepherds employed by squatters (pastoralists) the Henty brothers, a revenge killing by Aboriginal people, and the subsequent shooting of a number of Aboriginal people, women as well as men, by a Henty raiding party.
Geelong, Victoria at AllExperts (3168 words)
Captain Foster Fyans, constructed a breakwater to provide a sheltered harbour that became the premier wool-exporting port of the colony.
Captain Foster Fyans was commissioned as the local Police Magistrate and established himself on the Barwon River at the site of the area of present-day Fyansford.
Fyans constructed a breakwater to provide a sheltered harbour that became the premier wool-exporting port of the colony, and which gave name to the area now known as Breakwater, today an eastern industrial and residential suburb of Geelong.
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