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The First Fleet left Portsmouth, England, on 13 May 1787.

It arrived at their first stop, Tenerife in the Canary Islands, off the north west coast of Africa on 3 June 1797, where it stopped for a week.

The next port was Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, where the fleet arrived on 4 August 1797 and stayed until 3 September.

The final stop was at the Cape Of Good Hope in South Africa. The fleet arrived there on 13 October 1787 and departed on 13 November 1787.

The fleet arrived at Botany Bay on 18 January 1788 but did not stay there. It moved eight kilometres north to Port Jackson, and arrived on 26 January 1788.

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