Bankstown New South Wales Australia
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George Bass had arrived in Sydney in New South Wales on HMS Reliance.
Also on the voyage were Matthew Flinders, John Hunter, Bennelong, and his surgeon's assistant William Martin.
Bass had brought with him on the Reliance a small boat with an eight-foot (two point four meter) keel and five-foot (one point five meter) beam, which he calls the Tom Thumb on account of its size.
Bass and Flinders, accompanied by William Martin, sail the Tom Thumb out of Port Jackson to Botany Bay in October 1795 and explore the Georges River further upstream than had been done previously by the colonists.
Their reports on their return lead to the settlement of Banks' Town.
Bass was born on January 30, 1771, at Aswarby, a hamlet near Sleaford, Lincolnshire, the son of a tenant farmer, George Bass, and a local beauty named Sarah Nee Newman.
His father died in 1777 when Bass was six.
He had attended Boston Grammar School and later trained in medicine at the hospital at Boston, Lincolnshire.
He had been accepted in London at the age of eighteen as a member of the Company of Surgeons, and in 1794 had joined the Royal Navy as a surgeon.