Inter-Lace : British colonisation

The Early Sea Journeys

Zoom Explorers of Australia - Zoom School site which has summaries and detailed information easily identified in alphabetical order.

Early Explorers - from ABC "The Navigators" series - a timeline/summary of early European explorers 1606-1785

Early maps of Australia

Map - Early Dutch landfall discoveries in Australia

Early Dutch Explorers 1606-1636 - includes a map

Early European Exploration

Captain James Cook - biography which includes a map of Cook's voyages from the Mariners Museum in Newport, Virginia.

Australia - the first inhabitants from Virtual Australia, looks at the Aborigines first encounters with the explorers

European Discovery & the colonisation of Australia - a potted history of first contact with European mariners from 1606 onwards.

Pacific Explorers Library

First Fleet

The First Fleet Online - from the University of Wollongong - includes a Database of the First Fleet convicts

The Ships of the First Fleet - from the First Fleet Fellowship site

First Fleet Fellowship - the journey, the ships & the provisions

Interactive Map of the Route of the First Fleet - from the University of Wollongong site

People of the Colony

British Settlement from Virtual Australia - gives an overview of the development of the early colony.

Indigenous History of the City of Sydney

Journeys in Time - 1809 to 1822 the Macquarie Era

The Navigators - this site from ABC Learn Online traces the journeys of Matthew Flinders and Nicholas Baudin to complete the mapping of Australia's coastline. Find out about the history, the captains, their interaction with the indigenous people, their ships, the naturalists, navigation, maps & an interactive map of Flinders journey.

Aboriginal People

Significant aboriginal people of Sydney - includes information on Aeabanoo, Bennelong, Pemulwuy.

Pemulwuy - The Rainbow Warrior

Bennelong

Frances Greenaway - "the convict architect" - Biography

Caroline Chisholm - "the emigrant's friend"

Biography

Discovering Democracy - Biography

BTN Biography

John Macarthur
Elizabeth Macarthur - BTN Biography

Lachlan Macquarie

Biography

Discovering Democracy - Biography

William Charles Wentworth

The Lives of Convicts - Find out how the convicts lived.

Convict Trail : the Great North Road - this site explores the life and work of convicts in the Great North Road. It focuses on Sydney & the surrounding areas with a range of maps and an extensive history on the building of the road.

Convict Life in NSW - from the Great Northern Road Project

Convict Tales - a collection of convict biographies - an extensive list of short convict stories from the time of the 3rd Fleet 1791.

You've got Buckley's - the story of convict William Buckley (Victoria 1835)

Edward Pugh, Elizabeth Parker and Hannah Smith - Three First Fleeters

William Davis - 2nd Fleet Convict, NSW Corpsman and Farmer - detailed biography

For Teachers

Who Was First? - NSW CAP Online Research Module, Stage 2 HSIE

Voyages of Captain Cook - NSW CAP Online Research Module, Stage 2 HSIE

Discovery - clickable worksheet

Convicts of the First Fleet - Clickable worksheet

Convicts of the First Fleet - NSW CAP Online Research Module, Stage 2 HSIE

British Colonisation of Australia - Clickable worksheet from Port Macquarie TTC.

Project Sheets on Matthew Flinders from The Navigators (ABC Learn Online)

Ships - includes Interactive Games about the Navigators & an Interactive tour of Investigator