Old Map Of Australia 1788

“the map is possibly one of two known surviving copies in this state. British settlement of australia began as a penal colony governed by a captain of the royal navy. Until the 1810s all british attempts to penetrate the interior of australia by crossing the blue mountains which surrounded sydney failed, severely limiting available farmland in new south wales and forcing the young colony to rely on food imports.

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As an alternative, the british government decided to establish a penal colony on the east coast of new holland.

The image below is taken from a series of guadalcanal at 1:25 000, produced by the australian army in 1942, at the time of the japanese invasion of the solomon islands. The prehistory of australia is the period between the first human habitation of the australian continent and the colonisation of australia in 1788, which marks the start of consistent written documentation of australia. You can further adjust the search by zooming in and out. Points are imprecise to approx.