First Fleet
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Scientists now estimate that approximately 2.22 million Indigenous people lived across the continent before the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, potentially up to seven times the number suggested by some earlier calculations.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
In 1788, the so-called First Fleet of 11 ships, with hundreds of convicts aboard, arrived in Australia to establish a British colony.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2022
Coal mining in the Hunter Valley began with convicts, just a few years after the First Fleet landed in 1788.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2021
Aborigines inhabited Australia more than 50,000 years before the First Fleet sailed into Botany Bay near Sydney in 1788 after the country had been declared ‘terra nullius’, or unoccupied.
From Reuters ● Apr. 4, 2018
Many have perhaps read a little about him, and know the story of his surprising appearance in this harbour six days after the arrival of Governor Phillip with the First Fleet.
From Laperouse by Ernest Scott
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