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Botany Bay and Port Jackson (Sydney Cove), New South Wales Arrivals
1788
Australia 1st Fleet (convicts) 20 January
1790
Australia 2nd Fleet (convicts) 26 June
1791
Australia 3rd Fleet (convicts) 26 September
* Correspondence 09/25/02
The First Fleet initially landed in BOTANY BAY, but there was difficulty in
finding a suitable site for settlement, and within days the fleet moved
further north to PORT JACKSON.
The actual settlement was established on SYDNEY COVE, a small bay inside
Port Jackson (an extremely large natural inlet), and this is now the central
business district of the city of Sydney. The Opera House and the Harbour
Bridge are close by.
At this time the whole of the east coast of the Australian continent was
claimed by the British as NEW SOUTH WALES.
The colony was later subdivided (excising the states of Tasmania, Victoria
and Queensland) and the remnant part was the COLONY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. On
Federation in 1901, it became the STATE OF NEW SOUTH WALES within the
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA, with Sydney as the capital city of NSW.
Your reference for these fleets should be to Port Jackson, New South Wales.
Later arrivals would probably refer to Sydney, but the two are
interchangeable in the minds of most Australians. Mike Hurburgh, Australia
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