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The European exploration of Australia and discovery of its rich but strange animal life was late in coming. The British naval officer, Captain James Cook, sailed around Australia and charted the east coast of Australia, named it New South Wales, and claimed it for England between 1768 and 1771. In 1788, the first Europeans were transported to what is now Sydney. They were prisoners who had been sentenced by the British courts and incarcerated in prisons in Australia.

"Wallaby" is the broad term for mammals of the Macropodidae family that are smaller than kangaroos or wallaroos. As marsupials, wallabies gives birth to immature young and carry them in a pouch in the body until the offspring are fully developed. Wallabies are native to Australia and Papua New Guinea.