Anthology of the Discovery of Australia
from the first European contacts, the Dutch in the seventeenth century, extracts from their accounts of what they found (Rainer Radok)

First Fleet Online
website about convicts transported to Australia in 1787, for students and teachers, professional historians, family historians and other researchers; includes a database of the First Fleet convicts; information about the sources used; extracts from primary sources; research guidance; links (University of Wollongong)

The George Raper collection
in 1787 the 17-year-old George Raper joined the crew of HMS Sirius; he made a record of the voyage that followed, before the ship was lost off Norfolk Island (National Library of Australia)

Sir Joseph Banks’ papers
the wide-ranging papers (digitised images) of an eighteenth-century naturalist, traveller,
correspondent and royal adviser, who travelled with Cook on The Endeavour and was involved in the ill-fated expedition of The Bounty (fully indexed) (State Library of New South Wales)