In which year did the first shipload of English convicts land at Botany Bay in Australia?
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1788\n\nhttp://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=synge&book=seapower&story=first
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The sport of cricket was invented in England, and England is a founding Test cricket and one-day international nation. England played in the first Test match in 1877 (against Australia in Melbourne) and also the first one-day international in 1971 (also against Australia in Melbourne).
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Has to be Australia!!!
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England... more history.
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The capital of South Australia is Adelaide.
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New South Wales Australia
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Originally it was set up as a penal colony for all prisoners. This was done by the English. Just ship them there is what they did by sailing.
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Launched on July 6, 1922 and made her maiden voyage from Rotterdam to New York on November 4, 1922. In May of 1940 the Volendam temporarily housed the exiled Dutch government while at Falmouth, England. In 1946 it was used for shipping Dutch troops to Indonesia and sailing immigrants from Rotterdam to Australia. In 1947 it commenced summer sailings between Rotterdam and New York.
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along time ago in Sydney
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Francis Greenway (20 November 1777- 1837; the exact date of his death is not known, but he was buried at Maitland on 25 September 1837) was an iconic Australian colonial architect. Greenway was born in the English city of Bristol, where he became an architect. In 1809 he became bankrupt, and in 1812 he was found guilty of forging a financial document and sentenced to death; this sentence was later commuted to 14 years transportation. He arrived in Sydney in 1814 to serve his sentence.\n\nBetween 1816 and 1818, whilst still a convict, Greenway was responsible for the design and construction of the Macquarie Lighthouse on the South Head at the entrance to Sydney Harbour. After the success of this project he was emancipated by the Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, and in the role of Acting Civil Architect and Assistant Engineer responsible to Captain J M Gill, Inspector of Public Works, went on to build many significant buildings in the new colony. His works include Hyde Park Barracks, St. James Church and the new Government House. There are still 49 buildings in central Sydney attributed to his designs.\n\nGreenway fell into disrepute when Macquarie accused him charging high fees whilst on a government retainer, and he was dismissed by the next governor, Thomas Brisbane, in 1822. He died of typhoid near Newcastle in 1837, aged 59 or 60. He was buried in the East Maitland Cemetery on 25 September 1837, but his grave is unmarked.\n\nGreenway's face was shown on the first Australian decimal-currency $10 note (1966-93), and he is also the eponym of a NSW Federal electorate, a Canberra suburb and a high school in Beresfield, a suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales.
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Try www.nla.gov.au   (National library of Australia)\nor www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\nGood Luck
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Perth, Western Australia.
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Excellent, they dont have prisoners from England like Australia, their lands are not polluted like Europe or the USA, their people are very simple in thought,but a strong literate society.Beautiful country and lots of lamb steaks!
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The other answer is right as this the human presence is still expanding. \n\nGenerally though aborigines were in Australia 40,000 years ago. People also arrived in the Americas at this time (coinciding with the extinction of the wooly mammoth). \n\nAfrica of course was the origin of the human race and with land links to Europe and Asia these were fairly easily colonised.
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Australia! The kangaroos, kawolla bears, white sandy beaches and those gorgeous guys!
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the first country to be discovered was west indies. hemant it's aditya.
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The name Australia is derived from the Latin Australis, meaning of the South. Legends of an "unknown land of the south" (terra australis incognita) date back to the Roman times and were commonplace in mediaeval geography, but they were not based on any actual knowledge of the continent. The Dutch adjectival form Australische was used by Dutch officials in Batavia to refer to the newly discovered land to the south as early as 1638. The first use of the word "Australia" in English was a 1693 translation of Les Aventures de Jacques Sadeur dans la Découverte et le Voyage de la Terre Australe, a 1692 French novel by Gabriel de Foigny under the pen name Jacques Sadeur. Alexander Dalrymple then used it in An Historical Collection of Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean (1771), to refer to the entire South Pacific region.