answersLogoWhite

0

The First Fleet arrived in botany Bay on 18 January 1788, but the convicts did not disembark, because Captain Arthur Phillip recognised that Botany Bay lacked vital resources to sustain a colony. The fleet was moved about eight kilometres north, to Port Jackson.

The official date of arrival of the First Fleet was 26 January 1788. This is the day now known as Australia Day.

User Avatar

Wiki User

11y ago

What else can I help you with?

Related Questions

When did the first fleet arrive in Australia from Britain carrying prisoners?

The First Fleet arrived in Australia on 26 January 1788.


The first European settlers in Australia were prisoners true or false?

True. The first European settlers in Australia were primarily convicts sent from Britain. In 1788, the First Fleet, consisting of ships carrying convicts, arrived in Botany Bay, marking the beginning of the British colonization of Australia. This penal colony was established to alleviate overcrowding in British prisons.


Australia was orginally established as a?

Australia was originally established as a convict colony. Prisoners from Britain were sent to New South Wales, the site of the first European settlement in Australia, in 1788.


What country colonized Australia for the purpose of relocating prisoners?

Britain


Great Britain could no longer send its prisoners to Australia in 1788 to serve out their sentences because?

The question is incorrect. Great Britain began to send its prisoners to Australia in 1788.However, Britain could no longer send its prisoners to America because of the American War of Independence, in which America essentially severed its ties with Britain.


How the British used austarlia?

Australia was originally set up as a penal colony where Britain sent prisoners.


What European nation first settled Australia?

The first organised selement of Australia by Europeans Came From Britain.


Who were the European settlers of Australia?

The very first European settlers in Australia (not including the Aborigines who were the first inhabitants) were a mix of convicts, officers and marines, and free settlers, all of whom came from Britain.


What European country colonized Australia?

great britain was the country that colonized australia


What country settled Australia?

The first European settlers in Australia were primarily convicts from England, together with the officers and the marines who guarded them.


Australia and Canada supported which European country during World war 1?

Great Britain


Who were the people in the early European settlements?

Most of the people that came to Australia were from Britain and came to escape the poverty and inequality that was a halmark of life in Britain.