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The Northern Territory was founded in 1911 when it was excised from South Australia. [32] South Australia was founded as a "free province"—it was never a penal colony. [33] Victoria and Western Australia were also founded "free", but later accepted transported convicts.
Gold was discovered in northern Queensland in the 1860s and 1870s, and in the Kimberley and Pilbara regions of Western Australia in the 1880s. Sheep and cattle runs spread to northern Queensland and on to the Gulf Country of the Northern Territory and the Kimberley region of Western Australia in the 1870s and 1880s.
Interior of New South Wales; discovered Lachlan River and Macquarie River: 1818 Throsby, Meehan, Hume and Wild: Throsby and Wild discovered an overland route from Sydney to Jervis Bay via the Kangaroo and Lower Shoalhaven rivers. Meehan and Hume followed the Shoalhaven upriver and discovered Lake Bathurst and the Goulburn Plains [17] 1820 ...
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. 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 ...
The history of Australia from 1788 to 1850 covers the early British colonial period of Australia's history. This started with the arrival in 1788 of the First Fleet of British ships at Port Jackson on the lands of the Eora , and the establishment of the penal colony of New South Wales as part of the British Empire .
The penguins can only be found in southern Australia and New Zealand, ... Australia’s assortment of supersized and deadly fauna may be the stuff of nightmares, but Tasmania’s wildlife scene is ...
Scientists have confirmed the discovery of a new dinosaur species in Australia, one of the largest found in the world, more than a decade after cattle farmers first uncovered bones of the animal.
Police have discovered a crocodile carrying human remains while searching for a 60-year-old man missing in Australia. The crocodile carrying the remains was located along Watson River in Far North ...