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The First Fleet artwork collection
These include drawings of plants, animals and landscapes by Thomas Watling, a convicted forger, and George Raper, a midshipman of the fleet’s lead ship, HMS Sirius. It also contains the first drawings ...
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Defining Moments in Australian History: Colonisation begins
26 January 1788: A convict settlement is establish at Sydney Cove.
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What is Australia Day?
It marks the day when the First Fleet of 11 British ships sailed into Port Jackson with Governor Arthur Philip raising the British flag in Sydney Cove on 26 January, 1788. Many Indigenous ...
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First Fleet collection
when 11 ships carrying some 1,400 people landed to establish the first colony. Through the eyes of the fleet's artists we glimpse the flora and fauna, the people of the Eora Nation (the group of clans ...