Australian Colonial Settlement

He is remembered for his exploration of Tasmania (Van Diemen's Land) and New Zealand.

At 4:00am on the morning of Sunday 13 May 1787, the signal was given from the Sirius for the Fleet to commence its departure, and by 6:00am, all of the ships of the Fleet were on their way.

Aboriginal 300,000 + (approximate) European 5,200

The Europeans did a great many things to the Aborigines.

When the white settlers came, the Aborigines were dispossessed of their land and, much later, "encouraged" onto reserves, supposedly for their protection. They were forced off their traditional hunting grounds, and herded away from the fertile coastal areas where there was plenty of food. White settlers wrecked the very effective native fishing traps, cleared native habitats and reduced the native food supplies, as well as polluting their water.

Massacres of the indigenous people occurred on a regular basis. The Coniston massacre, the massacre at Myall Creek, the "Battle of Risdon" in Tasmania and many others, all were perpetrated against the Aborigines by the Europeans. There were years of conflict between Tasmanian Aborigines and white settlers which eventually resulted in the loss of the purebred aboriginal race from Tasmania - virtually genocide.

The Europeans also introduced foods and diseases, all of which were perfectly harmless to the white settlers, but lowered the life expectancy of the aboriginal people. Simple diseases like Measles and Influenza had devastating effects on Aborigines. Foods containing wheat and sugar resulted in heart disease and obesity among the indigenous Australians. Europeans introduced new flora and fauna which took over native habitat, leading to the extinction of many plants and animals on which the Aborigines relied.

When the aboriginal children were forcibly taken from their families, this directly led to a loss of culture, language, customs and traditions among the Aborigines. When the Europeans first came to Australia, there were around 250 different aboriginal languages in Australia. There is just a fraction of that number now. Many stories from the aboriginal Dreaming (creation legends) have disappeared forever.

A lepper colony is a group of people with leprosy ( a disease mostly around in biblical times) that as they were frowned upon by society made there own clubs/colonies.

Indigo was important in the Southern Colonies.

it used to be a colony controlled by the Netherlands

William Lawson explored the Blue Mountains largely due to the influence of Gregory Blaxland. Blaxland was a wealthy grazier who had come to Australia in 1806. He stood to gain much by finding a route to new grasslands. Blaxland approached Governor Macquarie about funding an expedition to cross the Blue Mountains. Blaxland took along two other men: William Lawson, who was also a landholder, and magistrate with surveying experience; and William Wentworth, the first Australian-born explorer.

Captain Charles Fremantle officially claimed New Holland (now Western Australia) for Great Britain on 2 May 1829. The colony did not become known as Western Australia until a month later, on 8 June.

No. Spain has never been a colony nor is it one now.

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Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Wentworth reached the end-point of their journey across the Blue Mountains on 30 November 1813. It is not known how long it took them to return, but it would have been a much shorter journey than their 17 day journey out.

Britain did not choose Moreton Bay.

The Moreton Bay penal colony was established 36 years after the first convicts arrived in Australia. The site was discovered by John Oxley in 1823 when he was sent north by Governor Thomas Brisbane in search of a potential new site for a convict settlement.

Like many of the English settlers of his time, Gregory Blaxland regarded Aborigines with a mixture of fear and condescension. Because so little was known about the aboriginal culture, Europeans were afraid of what they could not understand, yet tended to think they were better and "more civilised" than the Aborigines. Blaxland was no different in this regard.

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The First Fleet arrived in Australia in 1788, which was during the 18th century.

They arrived in Australia for a number of reasons

1.Convicts-a place to put them because Great Britain was getting crowded

2. Timber and flax for the ropes and masts of the ships

3.Expand the empire- prevent the french from getting it

- Increase prestige and colonies after losing the Americans

- Naval Base

4.Port for trade with Asia

5. Asylam for the American Loyalists

6. ALL OF THEM

It was necessary for the First Fleet to make stops at three different ports on its way to Australia because the crew needed to replenish its supplies and provisions. The journey to Australia took over eight months, and the ships were unable to carry enough supplies for the entire voyage. Hence the need to stop and take on new supplies at Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town.

Also, because the ships coupld not carry livestock for the entire journey from England, it was better to purchase cattle, sheep, chickens and other stock from the final stop, Cape Town.

Other countries had the opportunity to colonise Australia, but they chose not to. Australia was first "officially" discovered by Dutch traders in the East Indies: however, they landed in the west, one of the least forgiving areas of the continent and decided that it was not worth colonising. Likewise the French, hearing of the Dutch discovery, sent an expedition to map more of the coast. This did not, however, lead to any attempts to colonise and the continent was left alone for another hundred years. Even the English pirate and explorer William Dampier, who also landed in the northwest, dismissed the continent as uninhabitable.

It was not until James Cook's successful voyage which involved charting the eastern coast of Australia, that New South Wales was seen as a viable proposition for a convict colony. In particular, it was endorsed by Sir Joseph Banks, the influential botanist who travelled with Cook. Banks was one of three botanists aboard Cook's ship "The Endeavour", and he was a passionate advocate of British settlement and colonisation of the Australian continent. It was largely upon Cook's and Banks's recommendation that Australian ultimately was colonised by the British, and not by another power later.

The British decided to colonise Australia for several reasons:

1. To expand the British empire, and prevent the French from gaining a foothold in the Australian continent or in that part of the Pacific.

2. To solve the problem of Britain's overcrowded prisons (a consequence of the Industrial Revolution) by establishing a new penal colony in a land which showed promise for eventually becoming self-supporting. Britain had been sending their excess prisoners to North America, but the American War of Independence put a stop to the practice. Following this, the English were no longer able to transport surplus prisoners who couldn't legally be executed to North America.

3. Australia could provide commercial and political gains to Britain.

4. Due to war, Britain needed to find an alternative supply of Flax and timber as her Baltic supply was under threat. It was believed that nearby Norfolk Island would provide this.

5. Britain needed a port in the East to promote trade with China and to extend its naval and commercial power.

6. The continent had natural resources which England wanted.

The first permanent settlers arrived in Australia with the First Fleet on 26 January 1788 to set up the new penal colony.

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The show is fake from top to bottom.

the "volunteers" show emotions like they were really in a apocalyptic world meaning they are in fact paid actors and you can also see a gap in the time-line in the last episode of the first season where they go from night to day in about 5 seconds while they are siege(flamethrower scene), thus it can not be a "reality show", the ideas/gadgets are not theirs in fact i am pretty sure they don't even build them, i noticed this because the gas-powered flamethrower they build turned into a liquid-powered one just for the last siege scene.

No, it was under British rule.

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