New South Wales
New South Wales is a state on the South-East border of Australia. Here, the first Australian colonies were organized by British colonists. In 1770, Capt. James Cook claimed the land and named it after King George III. Initially, this land broadly covered from the Cape York Peninsula all the way to Tasmania (originally named Van Diemen's Land). These areas were separated by the Great Dividing Range, a series of mountain ranges that closely follows the coast of Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria.