From 1788 to 1868 more than 162,000 convicts were sent from the UK to Australia. We no longer do that, but we may start packing them off to Iceland instead. That’s an idea that CEO Richard ...

Australia was a British penal colony between 1788 and 1868 and over 160,000 convicts were 'transported' here. Learn about these child convicts, why they were transported, how they lived in the colony ...

Carrying more than 700 convicts over 250 marines and their families, the Fleet entered Sydney Harbour on 26 January 1788. This date is still celebrated as "Australia Day".

The surgeon on that ship was Thomas Bell. The first fleet of penal convicts left Britain for Australia in 1788, and the arrival at Port Jackson on 26 January 1788 is celebrated as Australia Day ...