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=European discovery and colonisation of Australia - Australian Government website= = = =The First Fleet - a site created by the State Library of New South Wales, containing=

moving maps and first-hand accounts from some of those who travelled south to Botany Bay.
(Thanks to James Martin for providing this link.)

Ths ships of the First Fleet: //Sirius// (the flagship//), Supply//, //Alexander, Lady Penrhyn, Charlotte, Friendship, Scarbrough, Prince of Wales;// (three supply ships) Borrowdale, //Fishburn, Golden Grove//

Captain Arthur Phillip, commander of the fleet, became the first governor of New South Wales.

When the fleet landed at Botany Bay, they did not find a good water supply. After a few days, they moved northwards to Port Jackson, a fine harbour, which they named Sydney Cove. But as they were leaving Botany Bay, into the bay sailed French ships under the command of the French Count de Lapérouse. Had he arrived ten days earlier, Australia might have been a French possession.

The following examples of colonists and convicts from the First fleet and/or early New South Wales were cited in the book "First Fleeters" by Liz Flaherty, published by Pearson in 2012.

George Raper and the Sirius George Johnston and Esther Abrahams John Palmer and Woolloomooloo Henry Kable and Susannah Holmes Joseph Tuso who was sent to Norfolk Island and later circumnavigated Australia with Flinders in the //Investigator// Edward Whitton and Slator Edward Miles and Susannah Smith Jane and Henrietta Langley Olivia Gascoigne Edward Parkinson James Bloodsworth and Sarah Bellamy Elizabeth Hayward John White, surgeon

Article about Mary Reibey, convict who became a wealthy business woman in Sydney, with coloured illustrations, from the "Australian Heritage" Magazine

Farming and food in early Sydney .

Sydney Cove, looking North, by Thomas Watling, 1794 ||||||||||  || It would be hard to find an account of the early settlement of Sydney more evocative than this. French tells the story of real people whose details exist in old letters and diaries. Nanberry really was a small Aboriginal boy adopted by the colony's surgeon after the boy's people had died from disease brought to Australia by the early colonists. Rachel Turner really was the surgeon's convict housekeeper. French brings to life the early sounds, sights, smells, struggles and prejudices of Sydney Town. Aboriginal students would find the whole story confronting, however. But extracts read aloud would give an idea of the lives of the people who came on the First Fleet. || ||   || Sydney : Scholastic, 1992. || || St. Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 1995. Full of stories and practical details of everyday life, this book describes the early days of white settlement in Australia - the preparations, the journey, the people, the equipment, the achievements and the failures. || || Lindfield, N.S.W. : Scholastic Press, 2005. This is a good book for reading out snippets to a class in a spare moment. It makes the important distinctions between the fates of the first, second and third fleets to arrive at Port Jackson, as well as the nature of the people on board. The style and tone are very like the British Horrible Histories and convey interesting facts about life in early Sydney. || ||
 * [[image:historycurriculum/sydney early sydney1794thomas watlingfacing north.jpg width="661" height="475"]]
 * French, Jackie, "Nanberry; Black Brother White"; Pymble, NSW : HarperCollins Australia, 320 pages.
 * PF MAR – Marsden, John, “The Rabbits”. Primary students are old enough to realise that this is not a book about rabbits, but about the European invasion of Aboriginal Australia, and it is important to read and discuss it with them. || [[image:http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1328765331l/82599.jpg width="100" height="132" caption="The Rabbits"]] ||
 * The first fleet / Alan Boardman, Roland Harvey.
 * The First Fleet : a new beginning in an old land / written and illustrated by John Nicholson
 * Grim crims & convicts 1788-1820 / Jackie French ; illustrations and cartoons by Peter Sheehan

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