Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Tafiya: Tun daga 1718, jigilar kaya zuwa yankunan Amurka ya kasance hukunci ne ga laifuka daban-daban a Biritaniya, tare da kimanin fursunoni dubu a kowace shekara a fadin Atlantic. An tilasta wa gwamnatin Biritaniya ta nemi wani wuri dabam bayan da aka rasa Turawan mulkin mallaka goma sha uku a shekara ta 1783, sai ta juya ga sababbin ƙasashen da aka gano na Australiya. Yankin bakin tekun Ostiraliya ya gano ga Turawa ta hanyar mai binciken Dutch Willem Janszoon a 1606 kuma kamfanin Dutch East India Company ya kira shi New Holland, amma babu wani yunƙuri na mulkin mallaka. A shekara ta 1770 James Cook ya gano gabar gabashin Ostiraliya yayin da yake tafiya ta kimiyya zuwa Kudancin Tekun Fasifik, ya yi iƙirarin nahiyar ga Burtaniya, kuma ya kira shi New South Wales. A shekara ta 1778, Joseph Banks, masanin botanist na Cook a kan tafiya, ya gabatar da shaidar ga gwamnati game da dacewar Botany Bay don kafa hukunce-hukuncen hukunce-hukuncen, kuma a shekara ta 1787 jirgin farko na fursunoni ya tashi, ya isa 1788. Biritaniya ta ci gaba da kai fursunoni zuwa New South Wales har zuwa 1840, zuwa Tasmania har zuwa 1853 da zuwa Yammacin Ostiraliya har zuwa 1868. Turawan Australiya sun zama masu fitar da ulu da zinariya masu riba, musamman saboda hawan zinariya a cikin mulkin mallaka na Victoria, wanda ya sanya babban birninsa Melbourne na wani lokaci birni mafi arziki a duniya kuma birni na biyu mafi girma (bayan London) a Daular Burtaniya. Yayin tafiyarsa, Cook ya kuma ziyarci New Zealand, wanda ɗan binciken Dutch Abel Tasman ya fara ganowa a 1642, kuma ya yi ikirarin tsibirin Arewa da Kudancin don kambin Burtaniya a 1769 da 1770 bi da bi. Da farko, hulɗar da ke tsakanin 'yan asalin Māori da Turawa an iyakance ga cinikin kayayyaki. Yankin Turai ya karu a farkon shekarun karni na 19, tare da cibiyoyin kasuwanci da yawa da aka kafa, musamman a Arewa. A cikin 1839, Kamfanin New Zealand ya ba da sanarwar shirye-shiryen siyan manyan filaye da kafa yankuna a New Zealand. A ranar 6 ga Fabrairu, 1840, Kyaftin William Hobson da wasu shugabannin Maori 40 sun rattaba hannu kan Yarjejeniyar Waitangi....  Tambaya: Yaushe aka sanya hannu kan yarjejeniyar?
6 ga watan Fabrairun 1840