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The First Fleet did not stop in Tasmania, or Van Diemen's Land, as it was called then. The Fleet passed Adventure Bay in Van Diemen's Land on 1 January 1788.
The journey of the First Fleet took about 8 months to travel the 15,000 miles between England and Australia.The First Fleet left Portsmouth, England on 13 May 1787, and first arrived at Botany Bay on 18 January 1788. The Fleet then moved on to Port Jackson and Sydney Cove, arriving there on 26 January 1788.
Yes. The First Feet was indeed supposed to come to Australia. Specifically, it was to land at Botany Bay, but Captain Arthur Phillip recognised the limitations of the Botany Bay region and instead moved the fleet to Port Jackson.
The First Fleet made three stops on the way to Botany Bay.The First Fleet travelled from Portsmouth, England to Santa Cruz, Tenerife in the Canary islands.After that, it journeyed to Rio de Janeiro.Its third stop was Cape Town.The Fleet then sailed along the southern part of the Australian continent, around Van Diemen's Land to Botany Bay, where it was supposed to settle.Botany Bay proved unsuitable for settlement, so the Fleet moved to Port Jackson and Sydney Cove, which was the site it colonised.
they were wondering what these people were doing on their land, they were confused. They have never seen white people before.
The First Fleet made three stops.From Portsmouth, Britain to Tenerife in the Canary Islands , off the north western coast of Africa.From the Canary Islands, the Fleet passed the Cape Verde Islands, off the west coast of Africa, but strong winds prevented the Fleet from stopping there. From the Cape Verde islands the Fleet moved on to Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, where it reprovisioned.The next stop was the Cape Town, on the Cape of Good Hope (South Africa), from where it continued on to New South Wales.
The first European colonisers landed in Australia on 18 January 1788, at Botany Bay. Only Captain Arthur Phillip and some of his officers disembarked to study the land and determine its suitability for settlement, while the convicts remained on the ships. The Fleet then moved north to Port Jackson, landing on 26 January 1788.
Arthur Phillip and the First Fleet arrived in Botany Bay between 18 and 20 January 1788.However, only Phillip and some of the crew of the HMS Supply went ashore. The passengers and remaining crew of the First Fleet did not go ashore. Phillip led the fleet up to Port Jackson, where Phillip selected Sydney Cove as a more suitable site for settlement, arriving there on 26 January 1788. Port Jackson is where the first settlement of Sydney was established.
Tasmania or back then it was known as Van Diemens Land.
1788 is the year that England colonised the Australian continent. The First Fleet, consisting of eleven ships, left Portsmouth, England, on 13 May 1787,and arrived in Botany Bay on 18 January 1788. Captain Arthur Phillip, Governor of the new colony, determined that there was insufficient fresh water, an absence of usable timber, poor quality soil and no safe harbour at Botany Bay. Thus the fleet was moved to Port Jackson, arriving on 26 January 1788. Australia Day, celebrated annually on January 26, commemorates the landing of the First Fleet at Port Jackson in 1788, and the raising of the Union Jack to claim the land as belonging to England.
Botany Bay.