8 months.
8 months.
The first British settlement was founded with the arrival of the First Fleet in Port Jackson on 26 January 1788.
It took just over 8 months and one week for the First Fleet 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.
13 May 1787 to 18 January 1788/
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Permanent non-indigenous settlement of Australia only occurred with the arrival of the First Fleet of convicts on 26 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.
No Ned was born in 1855 a long time after the First Fleet.
There is evidence to suggest that domestic cats arrived in Australia long before the First Fleet. It would appear that the Macassan traders who sought trepang (sea slugs) off Australia's northern coast some 500 years before the First Fleet had ships' cats, some of which stayed behind in Australia when the ships moved on. Naturally, these cats turned feral once they had to fend for themselves, and with no natural predators in Australia, their population proliferated rather well.
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8 months.