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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. [56]
First Fleet Entering Port Jackson, by William Bradley, Safe 1 / 14 Op p.65. During 1788, Bradley did not involve himself directly in colonial affairs, but instead joined John Hunter in extensive operations along the Sydney Harbour coastline. The two men were often away from the colony for extended periods, conducting surveys of the coastline ...
Eighteen years later, Port Jackson saw the arrival of the First Fleet. 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.
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
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The First Fleet led by Captain Arthur Phillip left England on 13 May 1787 to found a penal colony in Australia. It reached Botany Bay in mid-January 1788. Phillip had decided to move the settlement to Sydney Cove in Port Jackson, but the British ships were unable to leave Botany Bay until 26 January because of a tremendous gale.
In April, Capt. Zeita Merchant, raised in Jackson, will become the first Black woman to earn the admiral rank in the Coast Guard's 233-year history.
Arrival of the First Fleet in Port Jackson in 1788. On 24 January 1788 a French expedition of two ships led by Admiral Jean-François de La Pérouse had arrived off Botany Bay, on the latest leg of a three-year voyage. Though amicably received, the French expedition was a troublesome matter for the British, as it showed the interest of France ...