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7:00 AM January 2, 2021
Some of the First Fleet, the ships which took British convicts to Botany Bay, where they established the first European settlement in Australia, 1788
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PETER TRUDGILL on how long it took for the accent to appear after English arrived in Australia.
In 1788, during the reign of King George III, the English language made a very long journey indeed, penetrating deep into the southern hemisphere. This was on the occasion of the foundation of the British Australian penal colony of New South Wales.
Some exploration of northern Australia had been carried out by Dutch, Spanish and English seafarers in the 1600s, but it was not until 1770 that Captain James Cook mapped the whole of the east coast, naming it New South Wales and claiming it for Britain. The main impetus for the founding of this penal colony in Australia was Britain’s loss of its American colonies in 1783, after the American War of Independence.
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