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Captain Arthur Phillip commanded the First Fleet of convicts to Australia. In 1786, he was appointed Governor-designate of the proposed British penal colony of New South Wales. The First Fleet left Portsmouth, England, on 13 May 1787,and arrived in New SouthWales in January of the following year. This was the first officially approved European settlement in Australia, and marked the beginning of the British colonisation of Australia.

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