First Fleet

11 ships that left Great Britain to found the penal colony that became the first European settlement in Australia
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First Fleet

Summary

First Fleet is a convoy[1]. It draws 772 Wikipedia views per month (convoy category, ranking #1 of 3).[2]

Key Facts

  • First Fleet's instance of is recorded as convoy[3].
  • First Fleet's instance of is recorded as occurrence[4].
  • First Fleet's instance of is recorded as expedition[5].
  • First Fleet's followed by is recorded as Second Fleet[6].
  • First Fleet's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n83182209[7].
  • First Fleet's Commons category is recorded as First Fleet[8].
  • First Fleet's has part is recorded as HMS Sirius[9].
  • First Fleet's has part is recorded as HMS Supply[10].
  • First Fleet's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0j64_[11].
  • First Fleet's participant is recorded as William Bradley[12].
  • First Fleet's participant is recorded as Arthur Phillip[13].
  • First Fleet's topic's main category is recorded as Category:First Fleet[14].
  • First Fleet's main subject is recorded as penal transportation[15].
  • First Fleet's main subject is recorded as history of Australia (1788–1850)[16].
  • First Fleet's Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ID is recorded as 96370[17].
  • First Fleet's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/First-Fleet[18].
  • First Fleet's Quora topic ID is recorded as The-First-Fleet[19].
  • First Fleet's Quora topic ID is recorded as punjab[20].
  • First Fleet's Yale LUX ID is recorded as group/0dbe1f13-9a06-4f7f-b94b-9927a2e3c730[21].

Why It Matters

First Fleet draws 772 Wikipedia views per month (convoy category, ranking #1 of 3).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_first-fleet_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{First Fleet}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/first-fleet}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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