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Journeys to Australia

First Fleet

People

Convicts

Teachers Links

The Early Sea Journeys 

Zoom Explorers of Australia  summaries and detailed information easily identified in alphabetical order.

Voyages of Discovery: the great south land  NSW State Library site

Early Explorations of Australia  

Early Dutch Explorers 1606-1636  includes a map

Early European exploration

Landing List 1606-1814  from Australian on the Map site

Early Explorers of Australia  ABC Learn [Navigators site] - simple timeline with notes

A map of Cook's voyages from the Mariners Museum in Newport, Virginia.

Captain James Cook  information is well organised on the British Library site. Select Themes  for information on  his voyages.

 

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

Early maps of Australia  

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

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

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

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

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

The Ships of the First Fleet  from the First Fleet Fellowship site
People of the Colony
British Settlement from Virtual Australia - gives an overview of the development of the early colony.

Journeys in Time - 1809 to 1822 the Macquarie Era  

Colonisation 1788-1900  

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.

Aboriginal People

First Contact  

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"    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 Life in NSW   from the Great Northern Road Project

Australian History - Convicts  

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

Convict Trail : the Great North Road this site explores the life and work of convicts on 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.

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
NSW CAP Online Research Modules, Stage 2 HSIE

  Who Was First?  

  Voyages of Captain Cook  

  Convicts of the First Fleet 

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

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

Discovery clickable worksheet

British Colonisation of Australia  Clickable worksheet 

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James Cook  Cloze Activity

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This page updated on 06/02/2013