How did Australia become part of Britain's empire?

Question

Where were the 1st batch of British that settle down in Australia? Any other info is appreciated too.

Answer 1

It is widely accepted that the people of Australia are descended from prisoners. Yes, criminals put there to punish them for some misdeed.

Answer 2

after Cook mapped the east coast in 1770 and claimed Australia for Great Britain (ingnoring the fact that other people had been living there for 40+ thousand years!) - the British set up a penal colony (Prisoners) there (Sydney) in 1788 (mainly due to the American War of Independance meaning they could no longer send them there!). Later many free settlers came -esp. after gold was discovered. Australia stopped being a colony and became it's own nation in 1901. Although most Australians are still from British and Irish ancestry, most of them are decended from the free settlers who came much later and not the convicts. Australians take it as a badge of honour to find out if they are decended from convicts!!!

Answer 3

I was in Australia in 1985. I walked in the "Rocks" which is an area of Sydney that was first settled by Europeans.


Captn. James Cook, F.R.S by Francesco Bartolozzi 1727-1815. From the IMAGES1 collection of the National Library of Australia
The first records of European mariners sailing into 'Australian' waters occurs around 1606, and includes their observations of the land known as Terra Australis Incognita (unknown southern land). The first ship and crew to chart the Australian coast and meet with Aboriginal people was the Duyfken captained by Dutchman, Willem Janszoon.

Between 1606 and 1770, an estimated 54 European ships from a range of nations made contact. Many of these were merchant ships from the Dutch East Indies Company and included the ships of Abel Tasman. Tasman charted parts of the north, west and south coasts of Australia which was then known as New Holland.

In 1770, Englishman Lieutenant James Cook charted the Australian east coast in his ship HM Bark Endeavour. Cook claimed the east coast under instruction from King George III of England on 22 August 1770 at Possession Island, naming eastern Australia 'New South Wales'. The coast of Australia, featuring Tasmania as a separate island, was mapped in detail by the English mariners and navigators Bass and Flinders, and the French mariner, Baudin. A nearly completed map of the coastline was published by Flinders in 1814.

This period of European exploration is reflected in the names of landmarks such as the Torres Strait, Arnhem Land, Dampier Sound, Tasmania, the Furneaux Islands, Cape Frecinyet and La Perouse. French expeditions between 1790 and the 1830s, led by D'Entrecasteaux, Baudin, and Furneaux, were recorded by the naturalists Labillardière and Péron.

Answer 4

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