Where did the settlers first arrive in Australia?

Answer 1

Australia is the most urbanised country in the world, Contrary to the rough and ready CrocodileDundee that is put forward as the true blue Auzy only about 2% of Australians do not live very close to major centers of population. ore more then an hours drive from the Coast.

Answer 2

The indigenous Australians were the first to settle permanently in Australia. They originally came from the Indian subcontinent.

Regarding European settlement: Officially, Australia's first white settlers were from Great Britain. They were British convicts, and the marines and officers who guarded them and directed the first settlement.

Unofficially, there is wrong evidence that the first European settlement in Australia was started by survivors of Dutch shipwrecks in the west.

Answer 3

After the indigenous Aborigines, the first people to officially settle in Australia were convicts sent from Britain, and the officers sent to oversee the new colony. Governor Arthur Phillip was the first Governor of New South Wales (Australia).

Having said that, however, there is some evidence that the first unofficial European settlers were survivors of Dutch shipwrecks off the western coast of the continent, a region renowned for shipwrecks in the 1600s.

Answer 4

The settlers first arrived in Australia at botany Bay, but Captain Arthur Phillip, whose task it was to establish the new colony, decided Botany Bay was unsuitable for the purposes of a new settlement. He explored further north, selecting Port Jackson, where Sydney is now located.

Answer 5

Human habitation (people living there) on the Australian continent is estimated to have begun between 42,000 and 48,000 years ago, possibly with the migration of people through land bridges and short sea crossings from Southeast Asia. These people may be the ancestors of the Aboriginal people.

The first recorded European landfall on the Australian continent was attributed to the Dutch navigator, Willem Janszoon, who sighted the coast of Cape York Peninsula on an unknown date in early 1606. On 26th Febuary that year he made landfall at the Pennefather River on the western shore of Cape York. The Dutch charted the whole northern and western Coastlines of "New Holland" but made no attempt at settlement.

In 1770, James cook sailed along and mapped the east coast of Australia, which he named New South Wales and claimed for Great Britain. The colony was formed on 26th January 1788 when Captain Arthur Phillip led the First Fleet to Port Jackson.

The UK formally claimed the Western part of Australia in 1828

Answer 6

The First Fleet arrived in Botany Bay on 18 January 1788. Captain Arthur Phillip soon determined that there was insufficient fresh water, an absence of usable timber, poor quality soil and no safe harbour at Botany Bay. Thus the fleet was moved to Port Jackson, arriving on 26 January 1788.