The complete online text of The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay by Arthur Phillip.

Arthur Phillip (1738-1814) was an English naval officer and the first governor of New South Wales. His views of predominantly free settlers foreshadowed the sentiments of the later emancipists. Arthur Phillip was born on Oct. 11, 1738, in London and atte...

Some time in the mid-nineteenth century a headland on the north side of Botany Bay was given the name La Perouse in honour of the French navigator Comte de Galaup de Laperouse. (1) This memorial gesture was part of a long tradition, beginning...

The reasons for the visit of the Laperouse expedition to Botany Bay have remained mysterious, or at least unexplained, to Australians yet the simple answer to this question has been lying in the French archives for more than two hundred years. The...