People & stories

Behind every view there are people: warlords who founded cities, exiled poets, architects who gave their lives to a single church. Here are 162 historical figures linked to our destinations and 1161 local stories. History and folk legend are labelled separately, and every story has a source.

澳大利亚

18th century · 1738–1814

Arthur Phillip

Commander of the First Fleet and first Governor of New South Wales

1 related places

19th century · 1791–1865

James Stirling

Founder of the Swan River Colony and first Governor of Western Australia

1 related places

20th century · 1867–1943

John Bradfield

Father of the Sydney Harbour Bridge

1 related places

20th century · 1918–2008

Jørn Utzon

Designer of the Sydney Opera House

1 related places

新西兰

c. 1760s–27 November 1849 (birth year uncertain)

Te Rauparaha

c. 1760s–1849, Māori Ngāti Toa tribal chief and military leader, author of the haka *Ka Mate*.

1847–1934

Kate Sheppard, originally Catherine Wilson Malcolm

1847–1934, leader of New Zealand's women's suffrage movement, who helped make New Zealand the world's first self-governing country in which women won the parliamentary vote (1893).