The history of Indigenous Australians began 50,000 to 65,000 years ago when humans first populated the Australian continent. This article covers the history of Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait
An engraving from the late 19th century depicting Gweagal men confronting a British landing party in 1770
A museum model of Diprotodon, a hippopotamus-sized marsupial and member of the Australian megafauna encountered by the first Indigenous Australian settlers.
Aboriginal rock art depicting a thylacine on the Ubirr rock formation, Northern Territory
These implements were used only by men. At left, a spear-thrower (called woomera in the Eora language), and two examples of boomerangs. Boomerangs could be used for hunting (most were non-returning), or purely for music and ceremony.
First Fleet
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The First Fleet were eleven British ships which transported a group of settlers to mainland Australia, marking the beginning of the European colonisation of Australia. It consisted of two Royal Navy v
Engraving of the First Fleet in Botany Bay at voyage's end in 1788
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First Fleet, Cape Town, Table Mountain, South Africa, November 1787
Entrance of Port Jackson, 27 January 1788, by William Bradley, an officer on HMS Sirius