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''Endeavour''

A high school student stared thoughtfully at the
second question on his exam, which read,
“State the number of tons of coal shipped
out of Australia in any given year.”

Suddenly, his brow cleared, and he wrote,
“1770: None.”

 
To be pedantic, I had to check this, and he's right .....

Mining began in 1799 with the collection of coal from outcrops near Newcastle for sale in Sydney, and the first export of Australian coal took place in 1801 when 150 tonnes of Newcastle coal was despatched to India.
 

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