How Did Captain James Cook Changed Sydney

Gabriella Florence Princess

Darren Carter

English 7.2

25 February 2017

Sydney

In 1770, the arrival of Captain James Cook changed Sydney. In January 1788, Captain Arthur Philip led 11 ships of the First Fleet into Port Jackson. The aim was to establish a prison settlement for British convicts. Both soldiers and prisoners worked to carve out a rough and ready settlement using European knowledge, they ignored the local people’s skills, who had lived there for so long and who were now being decimated by new European disease. Some of the finest buildings of this early convict period were built during Lachlan Macquarie’s tenture of Governor in 1810 until 1821. Macquarie wants to build a city and got himself recalled by London for his trouble. Despite

It is surrounded by sandstone plateaus including the Blue Mountains, which prevent the city spreading and also provide areas of bushland close to the city. The Harbour, which splits city into two crossed by two bridges, the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Gladesville Bridge, also by Harbour Tunnel. Sydney is Australia’s most important business and tourism city. Australia’s exports, such as wool, wheat, and meat pass through Sydney’s Ports.

1840 was the final year of convict transportation to Sydney, which by this time had a population of 35,000. In 1851, gold was found in the colony and many people made money with it. Sydney’s population became 200,000 in 1871.

The Construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge made some of the effects of the economic downturn by employing 1,400 men between 1924 and 1932. The population continued and reached 1 million in

It has hosted over 2.8 million international visitors in 2013, or nearly half of all international visits to Australia. The countries of origin in descending order were China, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Germany, Hong Kong, and India. The city also received 8.3 million domestic overnight visitors in 2013 who spent a total of $6 billion.26,700 workers in the City of Sydney were directly employed by tourism in 2011. There were 480,000 visitors and 27,500 people staying overnight each day in 2012.

Sydney is the highest ranking city in the world for international students. More than 50,000 international students study at the city’s universities and a further 50,000 study at its vocational and English language schools

The first people to inhabit the area now known as Sydney were indigenous Australians having migrated from northern Australia and before that from southeast Asia. Radiocarbon dating suggests human activity first started to occur in the Sydney area from around 30,735 years ago.[9] However, numerous Aboriginal stone tools were found in Western Sydney's gravel sediments that were dated from 45,000 to 50,000 years BP,[27] which would indicate that there was human settlement in Sydney earlier than