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The first colony
Description
Establishment of a penal colony at Port Jackson in 1788 served a number of interests. It offered a new destination for convict transportation, after the flow of convicts to America had been halted by the War of Independence. It also gave Britain a strategic outpost in the Pacific, with access to Asian trading ports. Moreover, the colony formalised Cook's earlier claim to the east coast of the continent in the name of the British monarch, George III.
Associated person/organisation
Captain James Cook
Associated person/organisation
Sir Joseph Banks
Associated person/organisation
Governor Arthur Phillip
Associated place
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Sydney becomes the site of the first colony of New South Wales
Associated date
1788
The new colony is settled in 1788
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