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First Fleet
They set up the first penal colony in Botany to the house the convicts from England. This colony became the first colony in NSW -
Van Diemen's land
not many people where in sydney. in the 1790s there were sealers in Van Diemen’s Land (named tasmania in 1856). the first official
settlement was in 1803. The reason why they did this was to ensure French explorers could not claim it. -
British power
the British government officially claimed the whole of New
Holland which ment more power for them. And the Brithish decied to name it Western Australia