Sydneys historie: fra aboriginals til moderne metropol

Aboriginals were the first people, that settled in the area of Sydney. They came from the north-and southern Australia. Human activity in the area has been tracked down as far as 30000 years back, actually. Although development of the city has destroyed many of the tracks left by the first settlers, you can still find cave paintings in the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park. The first meeting between the Aboriginals and the british happened the 29th of April 1770, when Lieutenant James Cook took his first steps on Botany Bay. James was simply exploring though, so he didn’t bother the inhabitants. He spent a short while collecting food and conducting scientific observations before leaving

-Establishment of the first colony

For a long time Britain send their convicts over the Atlantic to the American colonies, but that stopped with the American declaration of independence in 1776. When the British prisons were all filled up, Britain decided to create a new penal outpost in the country, that James Cook had discovered sixteen years earlier. The responsibility to make the colonie was put on was put on captain James Arthur Phillip. He originally planned to do it at Botany Bay, but he found the place unsuitable due to poor soil and a lack of freshwater. He sailed further north, eventually coming to Port Jackson the 26th of January 1788, and it became the final place for the colonie. Originally the name of the city should’ve been Albion, but it was by Arthur to Sydney in honor of Thomas Townshend and Lord Sydney.