Australian Colonies

By *Angela*<3

  • First Colonies

    When the first fleet came in 1788 they made two colonies New South Wales and New Holland

  • 1825

    In the 1790s there were sealers in Van Diemen’s Land (named Tasmania from 1856).

  • 1831

    A British settlement of free settlers was established on the Swan River in 1829.Two years later the British government officially claimed the whole of New Holland