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Australia and its People › History
When did the First Fleet arrive in Australia?
- 1801
- 1770
- 1788
Why this is the correct answer
Captain Arthur Phillip led the First Fleet of eleven ships into Port Jackson on 26 January 1788, establishing the first British settlement. Neither 1770 nor 1801 marks that arrival: 1770 is when Cook charted the east coast, and 1801 falls during later colonial expansion.