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On 21 January 1788, after arriving at Botany Bay, Governor Arthur Phillip took a longboat and two cutters up the coast to sound the entrance and examine Cook's Port Jackson. Phillip first stayed overnight at Camp Cove , just inside the South Head, then moved up the harbour, landing at Sydney Cove and then Manly Cove, before returning to Botany ...
The Port Jackson Painter was one or more unknown watercolour artists working in Sydney, Australia, from 1788 through to the 1790s. The paintings are of plants, animals and life in Sydney. [ 1 ] Many believe that they were the naval officers of the time who had both the time and the training to paint the new environment around them.
The First Fleet arrives in Port Jackson, 27 January 1788, by William Bradley, an officer on HMS Sirius. Lithograph of the First Fleet entering Port Jackson, 26 January 1788, by Edmund Le Bihan. It was soon realised that Botany Bay did not live up to the glowing account that the explorer Captain James Cook had provided. [54]
Port Jackson Pidgin English was established as the need for communication between Aboriginal people and English settlers arose. [1] Its first records of existence date to 1788 in the Port Jackson penal colony. [2] By 1900 PJPE had developed into Northern Territory Pidgin English (NTPE) was widespread and well understood.
Sydney Cove was the site of the First Fleet's landing on 26 January 1788 and the subsequent raising of the Union Jack, a seminal date in Australian history now marked as Australia Day. Sydney Cove, Port Jackson in the County of Cumberland – from a drawing made by Francis Fowkes in 1788
26 January – After Botany Bay was decided unsuitable for settlement, the First Fleet sails to Port Jackson and lands at Sydney Cove to establish a settlement (which becomes Sydney). [1] 6 February – The first female convicts disembark at Port Jackson. [1]
In October 1788 Hunter was ordered to sail on HMS Sirius to the Cape of Good Hope for supplies. After circumnavigating the globe, in May 1789 he returned to New South Wales, where he resumed his former duties as a magistrate and surveyor of the Port Jackson area. [45]
When the First Fleet arrived at Port Jackson in January 1788, Phillip ordered Lieutenant Philip Gidley King to lead a party of 15 convicts and seven free men, including surgeon Thomas Jamison (the future Principal Surgeon of New South Wales), to take control of the island and prepare for its commercial development. They arrived on 6 March 1788.