Spartan, with hard work and basic accommodation and food.
None. The convicts did not settle at Botany Bay, but at Port Jackson.
Morton Plant North Bay Hospital was created in 1965.
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Lieutenant James Cook (he was not yet a Captain) first gave the name Morton Bay to what is now Moreton Bay. He named the bay after Lord Aberdour the 14th Earl of Morton. Morton was President of the influential Royal Society back in England, and Cook wished to honour him in this way.Moreton Bay was misspelt by those who published the accounts of Cook's voyages back in England, and the name remained.
Transportation of convicts was terminated.
Transportation of convicts was terminated.
Captain Arthur Phillip and the First Fleet of convicts landed at Botany Bay (but did not stay there) in 1788.
A Bay Fever is an obsolete slang term used in Australia to refer to an illness feigned by convicts to avoid being sent to Botany Bay.
The first Australian settlement was restricted to what was then called Sydney Cove. This was in Port Jackson. There were no convicts at Botany Bay.