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The First Australians

Aboriginal History Timeline The Dreamtime
Aboriginal people from Kidcyber Indigineous Australia Timelines
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The First Fleet and convicts

First Fleet Online - database of the First Fleet convicts from the University of Wollongong Convicts to Australia from 1788-1868
Provisions of the First Fleet Map of first fleet's journey
Ships in the First Fleet  

 

Explorers

Early European Explorers See who visited Australia's shores in the 1600s Captain Cook

The voyage of the Endeavour -monthly timeline from August 1786 to July 1771

Cook's Journal  Read about the voyage on the Endeavour to search for Terra Australis
Abel Tasman Australian Explorers -including Bass, Flinders, Oxley, Sturt, Burke and Blaxland
James Stirling Burke and Wills
Explorers of Australia and nearby islands from Zoom School The Navigators  from the ABC

The early Colony

British Settlement an overview from Virtual Australia
   

 

For Teachers

British Colonisation Online worksheet CAP Research Units
bullet Convicts of the First Fleet  
bullet Who was first?
bullet Voyage of captain Cook