About 350,000 aboriginal peoples of different origins, in many clan and tribal areas were spread across the continent, living as hunters and gatherers, and warring with each other over territorial, hunting rights, cultural issues and other disputes.
All of Captain James Cook's voyages were completed before the First Fleet ever departed Portsmouth, England. Cook died eight years before the First Fleet set sail.
He was a botanist.
The First Fleet did not bring fire ants to Australia. Fire ants were first detected in Australia in Brisbane in 2001. The First Fleet arrived in 1788, before the Brisbane area was even explored.
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No. Dirk Hartog landed on Western Australia's shores (then New Holland) about 170 years before the First Fleet even left England.
Willem Jansz / Janszoon was not on the First Fleet. Jansz was a Dutch trader who became the first recorded European to step foot on Australia's shores, doing so in 1606 - over 180 years before the First Fleet. The First Fleet was primarily made up of convicts from England, and arrived in 1788.
The First Fleet was known as the First Fleet when it came to Australia.
Same size as in real life.
The First Fleet.
There was no specific battle between the people of the First Fleet and the Aborigines. Once the First Fleet landed, the indigenous people faced an unwinnable war which ultimately led to the loss of their land, their culture and their way of life at the hands of the Europeans.
No. There was no mutiny on the first fleet.
According to the website First Fleet Fellowship, there were 44 sheep on board the First Fleet.