Route Of The First Fleet

Route of First Fleet to Australia

What Happened When They Arrived In Australia?

FOOD

Since most of the Convicts were poor, they didn't know how to farm crops. It was the worst time of year to plant crops. The ground at Sydney Cove wasn't very good, it was hot, dry and infertile. Opposite of what Captain Cook said 18 years earlier. They didn't have that much food, so the settlers sometimes ate rats, dogs, crows, emus and kangaroos.

SHELTER

They didn't really have that much building materials and tools (the tools they did have were bad quality) to make a good shelter. They didn't bring enough extra clothes, so by July 1788, the HMS Supply and the Sirius went to Cape Town for more supplies. On October 1788, the HMS Supply moved Marines and Convicts to Norfolk Island to set up a new colony. The soil was better, the timber was better than Sydney Cove.

NATIVES

The Natives were scared of the settlers because they had never seen cloud people (white people) before. The settlers called the Aboriginals Indians. The Europeans dressed very well, yet they didn't really thrive colonising Australia, yet the Aboriginals look very poor,  and they survived for a LONG time.

The Burrowdale

5 FACTS ABOUT THE BURROWDALE

1. The Burrowdale was 2 years old when it was part of the First Fleet
2. The ship used to be part of the EIC (East India Company)
3. It was a storeship of the First Fleet 
4. The Captain of the Burrowdale was Hobson Reed 
5. The Burrowdale was 23m long