History
Lieutenant John Watts, RN was the first European to visit Macauley and Curtis Islands — which he named after patrons George Mackenzie Macaulay, a London merchant and Alderman, and William Curtis — on the Lady Penrhyn in the late 1788. The Lady Penryn had delivered convicts to New South Wales as part of the First Fleet and was proceeding to Macao.
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