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Abel Tasman Part 2
The next day the crew left the ship and explored finding local plants to eat. The next day the weather was too difficult to row to the shore, so the carpenter, Peter Jacobson, volunteered to swim across and plant the prince's flag. -
Abel Tasman Part 3
24 Nov.
Good weather and a clear sky. At noon we calculated our position as 42o 25' S, 163o 31' E. We kept our course east by north and sailed thirty miles; the wind from the southwest and then the south with a light topsails breeze.
In the afternoon, about 4 o’clock, we saw land, which we had east by north from us by our estimate ten miles distant. It was very high land. -
Abel Tasman Part 6
We held off from the shore, sounded in 100 fathoms, and found a white sandy bottom with small shells. We sounded once again and found black, coarse sand with pebbles.
During the night we had a southeast wind with a light breeze. -
Abel Tasman Part 1
On the 24 November 1642, Tasman’s crew first came across the west side of Tasmania which was most probably at Cape Sorell. Abel Tasman decided that it may not be safe to take the ship’s any further out of the bay on the evening they arrived. For the whole of the next week the crew followed the coastline south looking for the best place to land because of all the bad weather. On 1 December they decided to anchor north-west of Green's Bay an hour after sunset. -
Abel Tasman Part 4
Towards the evening we saw in the east-south-east, three high mountains and in the northeast two more mountains; but these were not so high as those to the east-southeast.
We found here that our compass pointed due north.
In the evening in the first glass after the watch was set, I convened the ship’s council with the undermates and asked them whether it would not be best to run farther out to sea. -
Abel Tasman Part 5
I requested their opinion as to the time when it would be best to do so; upon which it was unanimously resolved to run out to sea at the expiration of three glasses, and to keep doing so for the space of ten glasses. After this to make for the land again. All of this may be seen more fully in today’s resolution to which I beg leave to refer.
During the night, when three glasses had run out, the wind turned to the southeast. -
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Australain Colonisation
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Captain Cook Part 1
On the 22nd of August , Captain Cook first sighted the Eastern Coast of Australia. On the 29th the Endeavour anchored in Botany Bay. Later on, he went up the East Coast to Cape York and claims it England and calls it N.S.W. Captain Cook was sent to the Great South Land because he was in Tahiti and he had a secret mission to explore and claim the Great South Land for England. -
Captain Cook Part 2
21 April 1770, (A piece of writing from Captain Cooks journal)
Winds southerly, a gentle breeze and clear weather with which we coasted along shore to the northward. … We saw the smoke of fire in several places, a certain sign that the country
is inhabited. -
Captain Arthur Phillips Part 1
In January 1778 Captain Arthur Phillips and his crew went with the eleven ships to Australia. Captain Arthur Phillips landed in Botany Bay but it was not good to settle in so they moved up north to Port Jackson. On the 26 of January which we know now as Australia Day. They settled in Australia because the jails were getting to full, they needed a different colony because America gave independence and also they came to Australia because of the trade. -
Captain Arthur Phillips Part 3
26 January 1788
"We reached the mouth of Broken Bay, Port Jackson, abt. 7 O'Clock p.m. & sail'd abt. 8 miles up to Sydney Cove where the Settlement is made. As I have already endevour'd to describe the appearance of the different Bays & Coves in this Harbour, I shall just observe here that there are many Islands in the center of most of the Coves wh. Have a very Novel & Romantic appearance; The Ships many of them lye so near the shore that they might wt. -
Captain Arthur Phillips Part 2
Arthur Bowes-Smyth (1750-1790)
Arthur Bowes-Smyth, Surgeon on the Lady Penrhyn, was a keen observer of natural history in New South Wales. He left the colony in April 1788 returning to England via Lord Howe Island, Tahiti and China. -
Captain Arthur Phillips Part 4
Ease be fasten'd by ropes to the trees instead of putting down their Anchors.' -
Federation Part 3
Any man who says he is an Australian, but something else also, isn't an Australian at all.
We have room for but one flag, the Australian flag....
We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the Australian people.'
Edmund Barton 1907 -
Federation Part 1
On the first of January 1901 Australia became an independent country. In 1901 the British government passed down legislation allowing all the six states to become a Nation. Also on that day Australia become a part of the commonwealth and will be under the queen. Australian became a nation because they wanted to be a nation and england agreed to join them. -
Federation Part 2
My, how times have changed.
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an Australian and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin.
But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an Australian, and nothing but an Australian...
There can be no divided allegiance here. -
Involverment in WW1 Part 1
In 1914 Australia sent to War around 416,000 soldiers to fight for the mother
country which was known back then as Britain. Australian was sent to War
because Britain was considered the top country and that we had to help and
defend the British Empire. Also Australia thought that fighting in the War would
make the world a better and safer place. -
Involverment in WW1 Part 2
A pitch dark night and you standing in a narrow trench just wide enough to stop your shoulders from rubbing the sides, you can only see a handsbreadth in front of your face you hear the hiss of bullets passing overhead you cannot strike a match as the flare might cost one of your mates his life you move silently along pass the Officer on Duty he is muffled up -
Involverment in WW1 Part 3
to the eyes for the cold is bitter you look on one platform and there is the machine gun stripped of his outer casing ready to deal out death to any Turks that try to rush our trench we were only 40 yards apart.
- Arthur Taylor -
Today Part 1
Today Australia has much in common with England. This includes sport, being a part of the Commonwealth and the British Empire. In Cricket we play against England in the Ashes and we also compete against them in the Commonwealth Games. -
Today Part 2
We also compete against all of the Nations in the Commonwealth. Australia is also connected with England by being in the British Empire and the British Monarchy. The Queen acts on behalf of the Australian government. The Royal Family is very close to many Australians.So in today's life we have a great connection with England.
