
New South Wales, Australia
New South Wales is the oldest European settlement in Australia, founded in 1788 when the First Fleet landed at Sydney Cove on Gadigal country. From penal colony to industrial powerhouse, the state has shaped Australia's political, commercial, and cultural identity across two centuries. Its history extends from the colonial processing of transported convicts to the darker twentieth-century mysteries of Broken Hill's outback, where Project Ironsand and the Silverton Strangler cast long shadows across generations.









