The first British settlement was founded with the arrival of the First Fleet in Port Jackson on 26 January 1788.
During the early years of Australia's colonial settlement, the English used Australia as a dumping ground for their unwanted convicts.
Britain initiated white settlement in Australia by establishing a penal colony as an overflow for their crowded prisons.
James Cook explored and charted the eastern coast of Australia (he did not discover Australia). He and botanist Joseph Banks, who was aboard the Endeavour with Cook during this journey, proposed that Australia be settled as a penal colony. His reports of the continent were far more favourable than those of fellow Englishman William Dampier, who had only landed on Australia's far northwestern shores. Cook therefore helped shape Australia because his reports were directly responsible for the subsequent settlement of the land, even though this occurred eighteen years after Cook's mapping of the coast.
The colony of South Australia was not established as a convict settlement because, by the 1830s, on further penal colonies were required in Australia. The main reason for settlement in South Australia is that the British Government wished to establish a colony on the southern coast, securing its claim against the possibility of French incursions.
Australia is an Urban Settlement.
England was responsible for establishing the first white settlement in Australia.
The first settlement in Western Australia was by the British.
Sydney Harbour was the site of Australia's first European settlement.
Well, Cook said that Australia was a good place for farming, and a good place for a new settlement.
South Australia was the only state to have never had convicts. Unlike the eastern colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Tasmania, the first settlement in South Australia was not a penal settlement; and unlike Western Australia, it did not engage convict labour later on.
Australia took their convicts in the beginning, now Australia takes their tourists.
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Australia's shape looks a little like an upside down sheep.
The first European settlement in Australia was a penal colony.
Algae is the shape of Australia
where did the new Zealand settled in Australia