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Sydney Cove was named after the British Home Secretary, the 1st Baron Sydney (who was later created 1st Viscount Sydney in 1789). It was the site chosen by Captain Arthur Phillip , RN between 21 and 23 January 1788 for the British penal settlement which is now the city of Sydney , and where possession of New South Wales was formally declared on ...
The British settlement of the island soon centred on Launceston in the north and Hobart in the south. For the first two decades the settlement relied heavily on convict labour, small-scale farming and sheep grazing, sealing, whaling and the "dog and kangaroo" economy where emancipists and escaped convicts hunted native game with guns and dogs.
The site selected for the anchorage had deep water close to the shore, was sheltered, and had a small stream flowing into it. Phillip named it Sydney Cove, after Lord Sydney, the British Home Secretary. [59] This date is celebrated as Australia Day, marking the beginning of British settlement. [62]
Map of Sydney Cove published 24 July 1789. The First Fleet of 11 ships under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip arrived in Botany Bay in January 1788. It consisted of more than a thousand settlers, including 736 convicts. [17] The fleet soon moved to the more suitable Port Jackson where a settlement was established at Sydney Cove on 26 ...
After 43 convicts had died during the eight-month trip, 732 landed at Sydney Cove. [1] In 2005, the First Fleet Garden, a memorial to the First Fleet immigrants, friends and others was created on the banks of Quirindi Creek at Wallabadah, New South Wales. Stonemason Ray Collins researched and then carved the names of all those who came out to ...
A statue of British explorer Captain James Cook in a ... anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788, establishing the first permanent European settlement on the continent
Norfolk Island was first settled by Polynesians in the 13th or 14th century. In 1788 the British colonised the island, by that time the Polynesians had been gone for hundreds of years. Jervis Bay Territory is located on the Australian mainland and has two small villages. Prior to British settlement, the area was inhabited by Yuin aboriginal people.
Sydney Cove and Old Government House, Port Jackson, 1808 Government House, Sydney, 1836, Charles Rodius Old Government House in the 1840s. The abode of the first Governor of New South Wales, Captain Arthur Phillip, was a structure made of canvas and timber brought from England with the First Fleet and erected in January 1788. First Government ...