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He lobbied the House of Commons to establish a penal colony on Botany Bay in Australia and for 20 years he fostered it and was a general advisor to the British government on Australian matters.
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England's "First Fleet" transporting convicts to Australia travelled over 20,000 kilometres sailing southwest to Rio de Janeiro, then east to Cape Town and finally to Botany Bay, taking 250 days in cramped unhygienic conditions.
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Sydney was named after Lord Sydney, who mever even visited Australia, but was responsible for prisons and colonies, and had devised the plan to settle convicts at Botany Bay.
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The sailing ship 'Endeavour' that Captain Cook famously landed at Botany Bay in Australia in 1770 was later renamed "Lord Sandwich".
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Although Bound for Botany Bay, the First Fleet disembarked at Sydney Cove.
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The dutch ship 'the Batavia' , which 150 yrs before the 1st fleet sailed for Botany Bay, shipwrecked on atolls off the West Australian Coast in 1629. mutiny & 100+ murders followed.
