Indigenous Australians
The name commonly used today for the first Australians.
What is Indigenous Australians?
Captain James Cook's job.
What is an explorer and Navy Captain?
The number of ships that made up the First Fleet.
What is eleven?
Indonesian people who traded with the Indigenous Australians
Who is the Macassans?
The name first given to Botany Bay by Captain Cook.
What is Stingray Bay?
The approximate number of Indigenous Australians prior to European Settlement.
What is 750, 000 Aboriginal people?
The first European to cross the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
Foods eaten by the convicts on board the First Fleet.
What is salty meat stew and bread?
A seafood commonly eaten and traded by Aboriginal people.
What is Trepang?
The country in which Captain Cook died in 1779.
What is Hawaii?
The number of different languages spoken in Australia before the British arrived.
What is 250 (600 dialects)?
The first European to (accidentally) prove the existence of Terra Australis Incognita.
Who was Dirk Hartog?
The place first chosen for landing for the First Fleet.
What is Botany Bay?
European Explorers brought this deadly disease, which killed many Indigenous people.
What is smallpox?
The natural feature discovered by Captain James Cook in 1770?
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
The last surviving full-blooded Tasmanian Aboriginal.
Who was Truganini?
Which Dutch explorer landed on Cape York in 1606?
Who was Willem Janszoon?
The number of people who traveled on the First Fleet ship, the Friendship.
What is 97?
To learn more about the "natives", Governor Phillip kidnapped this many men.
What is one? (He was named Arabanoo)
After settlement in 1788, it took approximately this many years for European settlers to become self-sufficient.
What is 12 years?
The names of the first two Indigenous Australian men to visit England.
Who were Bennelong and Yemmerrawanne?
The year James Cook was born.
What is 1728?
The number of convicts brought to Australia by the First Fleet.
What is 787?
Cook and the Guugu Yimithirr people fought over this item of food.
What is a turtle?
The modern state of Australia that was the first colony without convicts.
What is South Australia?