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All of Captain James Cook's voyages were completed before the First Fleet ever departed Portsmouth, England. Cook died eight years before the First Fleet set sail.
The First Fleet departed Portsmouth in England on 13 May 1787.
The people on the First Fleet were from England and Ireland.
No. Dirk Hartog landed on Western Australia's shores (then New Holland) about 170 years before the First Fleet even left England.
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The First Fleet departed Portsmouth, England on 13 May 1787.
Portsmouth.
The First Fleet was not something that was built. The First Fleet was the fleet in which the first permanent settlers travelled to Australia, and it was made up of convicts, marines and officers from England.
There were 11 ships in the First Fleet, which departed from portsmouth, England on 13 May 1787.
A combination of good seamanship and bad weather scattered the Spanish fleet
Prior to the arrival of the First Fleet of convicts from England, Australia was inhabited by an ancient race of people now referred to as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.
Willem Jansz / Janszoon was not on the First Fleet. Jansz was a Dutch trader who became the first recorded European to step foot on Australia's shores, doing so in 1606 - over 180 years before the First Fleet. The First Fleet was primarily made up of convicts from England, and arrived in 1788.