Australian Colonies

  • First Fleet

    They set up the first penal colony in Botany to the house the convicts from England. This colony became the first colony in NSW
  • Van Diemen's land

    not many people where in sydney. in the 1790s there were sealers in Van Diemen’s Land (named tasmania in 1856). the first official
    settlement was in 1803. The reason why they did this was to ensure French explorers could not claim it.
  • British power

    the British government officially claimed the whole of New
    Holland which ment more power for them. And the Brithish decied to name it Western Australia