8 months.
8 months.
13 May 1787 to 18 January 1788/
The First Fleet was the fleet in which the first permanent settlers travelled to Australia. Consisting of convicts, marines and officers, the members of the First Fleet literally built Australia from nothing but bushland. Australia Day celebrates the arrival of the First Fleet and the beginning of European colonisation of the continent. Unfortunately, the First Fleet is also important to the indigenous people of Australia, as it signifies the beginning of their displacement from their own tribal lands, and the resultant loss of aboriginal culture.
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The First Fleet sailed from Britain 13 May 1787. After a number of stops along the way the fleet arrived in Botany Bay, Australia 18-20 January 1788. So the journey was less than a year - about 8 months.
It took about three months.
The first state to be settled by Europeans in Australia was New South Wales. It was settled by convicts, marines and officers who arrived with the First Fleet in 1788.
It took just over 8 months and one week for the First Fleet to travel the 15,000 miles between England and Australia. The First Fleet left Portsmouth, England on 13 May 1787, and first arrived at Botany Bay on 18 January 1788. The Fleet then moved on to Port Jackson and Sydney Cove, arriving there on 26 January 1788.
The First Fleet's trip from Portsmouth to Rio de Janeiro took almost three months. The fleet departed on 13 May 1787 and arrived in Rio on 7 August 1787.