Quite simply, Cook didn't recommend it.
When James Cook sailed up the eastern coast of Australia and claimed the land for England under the name of New South Wales, he sailed into the harbour at botany Bay. This was the area he and the ship's botanist, Sir Joseph Banks, recommended as suitable for a colony.
Strong winds stopped the First Fleet from landing at Cape Verde.
Tasmania or back then it was known as Van Diemens Land.
The First Fleet of convicts and officers to Australia was supposed to settle at Botany Bay, but this area proved unsuitable for several reasons. As a result, the Fleet moved about 8km north to Port Jackson and Sydney Cove.
Around Sydney Harbour.
They didnt really do anything to treat the convicts
The first Italian to arrive and settle in Australia was convict Giuseppe Tuzo, who arrived with the First Fleet in 1788.
Governor Arthur Phillip led the First Fleet to Australia, establishing the first British colony in the land.
The British settled in Sydney from the arrival of the First Fleet, on 26 January 1788.
The First Fleet, consisting of British convicts and soldiers, arrived in Sydney on January 26th 1788. This day is commemorated each year as 'Australia Day.'
they didnt sleep on anything they were put to work and wee kept below deck they probably slept on nothing..
The people on the First Fleet had in common the fact that they were leaving England to settle in an "uncivilised" land for an undetermined number of years.The convicts who made up most of the First Fleet were all convicted of a variety of crimes, mostly petty theft, and were sent away from their home country of England to a land far away, of which most of them had never even heard.
The First Fleet was known as the First Fleet when it came to Australia.
The First Fleet.