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Botany Bay (Dharawal: Kamay) is an open oceanic embayment, [2] located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 13 km (8 mi) south of the Sydney central business district.Its source is the confluence of the Georges River at Taren Point and San Souci as well as the Cooks River at Kyeemagh, which flows 10 km (6 mi) to the east before meeting its mouth at the Tasman Sea, midpoint between the ...
The British Government began transporting convicts overseas to Amas the site of a penal colony, and in 1787, the First Fleet of eleven convict ships set sail for Botany Bay, arriving on 20 January 1788 to found Sydney, New South Wales, the first European settlement on the continent.
1786 – British government decides to found convict settlement in Botany Bay. 1787 – First Fleet of eleven vessels under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth. 1788 Phillip arrives in Botany Bay but moves site of settlement to Sydney Cove. French vessels under the command of Lapérouse land in Botany Bay. Parramatta founded.
The party returned to Botany Bay on 23 January. [57] On the morning of 24 January, the party was startled when two French ships, the Astrolabe and the Boussole, were seen just outside Botany Bay. This was a scientific expedition led by Jean-François de La Pérouse.
Having set sail on 13 May 1787, Captain Arthur Phillip assumed the role of governor of the settlement upon arrival. On 18 January 1788, the first ship of the First Fleet, HMS Supply, with Phillip aboard, reached Botany Bay. However, Botany Bay was found to be unsuitable by Phillip.
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 January 1788. [ 18 ]
The City of Botany Bay was a local government area in the Eastern Suburbs region of ... ICAC released its report and found that former chief financial officer, Gary ...
Founding of the settlement of Port Jackson at Botany Bay in New South Wales in 1788, by Thomas Gosse A General Chart of New Holland including New South Wales & Botany Bay with The Adjacent Countries and New Discovered Lands, published in An Historical Narrative of the Discovery of New Holland and New South Wales, London, Fielding and Stockdale ...