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The First Fleet of convicts left Portsmouth, England, on 13 May 1787,and arrived in Botany Bay on 18 January 1788. It was found that there was insufficient fresh water, an absence of usable timber, poor quality soil and no safe harbour at Botany Bay. Thus the fleet was moved to Port Jackson, arriving on 26 January 1788.
