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First Fleet part 2
. At this time they stayed for a week to stock up supplies. On the 7th of August 1787 the First Fleet arrived at Rio de Janeiro and stayed for a month to make repairs on the damaged sails, and also to collect seedlings to be planted in New South Wales Australia. In October 1787 it took five weeks for the First Fleet to travel from Rio de Janeiro to the Cape of Good Hope. -
First Fleet part 3
While there , supplies were loaded on board , including cattle and fresh food. It then took eight weeks for the First Fleet to travel to Botany Bay . On 26th January 1788, Phillips landed his fleet at Sydney Cove which was named after Lord Sydney. -
First Fleet
The First Fleet was the name given to the eleven ships that sailed from Great Britain to Australia on the 13th of May 1787 , under the control of Captain Arthur Phillip .There were 10 civil officers, 212 marines, 28 wives and 17 children belonging to marines, 81 free people, 504 male convicts and 192 female convicts. After a few months of sailing the first fleet arrived at Tenerife, which is located in the Canary Islands. -
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Australian Colonial History
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Matthew Flinders part 2
His first voyage to New South Wales was in 1795 when the newly elected Governor was brought out, and in 1800 he rejoined the ‘Reliance’ which set sail for England. He married his wife Ann while he was home in England. He had one daughter Anne.
Matthew was a Royal Navy Ships Officer, and became a well known navigator and cartographer. He fought the battle of Ushant against the French in 1781. -
Matthew Flinders part 3
In 1796 Bass and Flinders explored the coastline south of Sydney using a tiny open boat about 2.5 metres long. He was the first man to sail around the entire coastline of Australia. -
Matthew Flinders
Matthew Flinders was born 16th March 1774, and died 19th July 1814 at the age of 40. He was the son of Matthew Flinders a surgeon, and his wife Sarah.
Matthew made three voyages to the Southern Ocean ;
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Ned Kelly
Edward Kelly was born in June 1854. He was the son of John and Ellen Kelly, and had seven siblings. Ned Kelly had an Irish background.
Some people think of Ned Kelly as a criminal and a killer, while others thought of him as hero and someone who stood up for the poorer class of people.
He was in trouble many times with the law and police. He and his close friends and relatives were known as the “Kelly Gang”. -
Ned Kelly part 3
This fight ended when Ned Kelly got shot in the leg (an area of his body he did not cover in armor). He made his own armor out of corrugated iron fences, and other materials. He was later captured, convicted of murder and went to jail until he was hung in November 1880.He is still known and regarded today as an Australian icon and hero. -
Ned Kelly part 2
He worked as a bushranger, and was known for stealing from the richer people. The most famous incident Ned Kelly was known for was in his home town in 1878 when he killed three policemen. He was a wanted man and murderer. He was found by police in Glenrowan on the 28th of June 1880. There was a big fight between Ned Kelly and his gang, against the police. -
Van Diemen's Land part 2
. Abel Tasman was Dutch and he named Tasmania Van Diemen’s Land in respect of the Dutch Governor General who was named Anthony Van Diemen.
It was not until between 1772 and 1798 that Van Diemen’s Land was known to be a separate island off the coast of the mainland. This was when Matthew Flinders and George Bass sailed around Tasmania in their ship the Norfolk, and mapped out the area by drawing the coastline. -
Van Diemen's Land part 3
After this discovery of Tasmania being an island, it was used to send the convicts and prisoners as with the water surrounding the land it was perfect place for them to not escape.
On the 1st of January 1856 Van Diemen’s Land name was changed to Tasmania. -
Van Diemen's Land
The island of Tasmania was originally known as Van Diemen’s Land. It was originally used as a place to send the convicts from Europe.
The Dutch explorer Abel Tasman was the first person to discover the land now known as Tasmania. He started out on his voyage in 1642.
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Australian Federation part 2
People had been trying to get the colonies to join together during the 1850s and 1860s, but there was a lot of public fear by the smaller colonies that they would lose their independence. Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of New South Wales, was the main person supporting this idea. As soon as Federation happened, Sir Edmund Barton was put in charge as Prime Minister of Australia until the first Australian elections were held. -
Australian Federation
Barton won this first election and went onto be the Prime Minister. Each state kept its own government system, but there also needed to be a Federal Government who was responsible for governing the whole nation. -
Australian Federation part 3
The Australian Federation took place in 1901. Fiji and New Zealand were originally part of this process, but they decided not to join the Federation. The Federation of Australia was when six separate British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia joined together to become one country.
