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Convict transportation in global context, c.1700-88
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Christopher, E and Maxwell-Stewart, H, Convict transportation in global context, c.1700-88, The Cambridge History of Australia: Indigenous and Colonial Australia, Cambridge University Press, Alison Bashford and Stuart Macintyre (ed), New York, pp. 68-90. ISBN 9781107011533 (2013) [Research Book Chapter]
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Abstract
On 18 January 1788 the Royal Navy's armed tender, Supply, sailed into a large
estuarine inlet on the eastern seaboard of the continental mass of Australia.
This was a place that British vessels had been to before. James Cook had
visited in April 1770, naming it Sting Ray Harbour on account of the large
number of fish of that species netted by the crew of the Endeavour. He later
renamed the expanse of water Botany Bay - a reference to the haul of exotic
plants garnered by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, the expedition's scientists.
Yet it was the subsequent visit of the Supply that was to make Botany
Bay a British household name. Over the following two days a collection of
six blunt-nosed and round-bodied transport vessels slipped into the harbour,
accompanied by three store ships and HMS Sirius. On board were officers,
seamen and marines, plus 736 convicts. This 'First Fleet' was a harbinger of
things to come. Over the next So years it would be followed by a further 8oo
transports that would deliver a total of 16o,ooo convicts to Britain's Australian
colonies.
Item Details
Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
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Keywords: | Convict Transportation, Colonisation |
Research Division: | History, Heritage and Archaeology |
Research Group: | Historical studies |
Research Field: | Australian history |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in human society |
UTAS Author: | Maxwell-Stewart, H (Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart) |
ID Code: | 87771 |
Year Published: | 2013 |
Deposited By: | School of Humanities |
Deposited On: | 2013-12-05 |
Last Modified: | 2018-03-13 |
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