By December 1790 Phillip was ready to return to England, but the colony had largely been forgotten in London and no instructions reached him, so he carried on.

However, in late 2006 and early 2007 the rate of attrition reached new proportions, and the term colony collapse disorder was coined to describe the sudden disappearances.

It originated as a Phoenician colony in Africa, near modern Tunis, and gradually became the center of a civilization whose hegemony reached along the North African coast and deep in its hinterland, and also included the Balearic Islands, Sardinia, Corsica, a limited area in southern Spain, and the western half of Sicily.

By 1300, the Inuit and their language had reached western Greenland, and finally east Greenland roughly at the same time the Viking colony in southern Greenland disappeared.

By 1832, the British settler population of the colony had reached around 1, 500, and the official name of the colony was changed to Western Australia.

The Mycenaeans quickly penetrated the Aegean Sea and by the 15th century BC had reached Rhodes, Crete, Cyprus, where Teucer is said to have founded the first colony, and the shores of Asia Minor.

Governor White finally reached Roanoke Island on August 18, 1590, his granddaughter's third birthday, but he found his colony had been long deserted.

It is a non-migratory resident throughout its range, although Moroccan birds have established a small colony near Málaga in southern Spain, and wanderers have reached Czechoslovakia, Gibraltar, Hungary and Cyprus.

There were few available soldiers in the colony, but the governor, Sir Benjamin d ' Urban acted quickly and all available forces were mustered under Colonel Sir Harry Smith, who reached Graham ’ s Town on 6 January 1835, six days after news of the uprising had reached Cape Town.

In December 1847, or what was to be the last month of the War of the Axe, Sir Harry Smith reached Cape Town by boat to become the new governor of the colony.

It sailed onward to Cape Verde, a Portuguese colony situated on the West African coast, which was reached on 22 March.

Transylvania, or the Transylvania Colony, was a short-lived, extra-legal colony founded in 1775 by Richard Henderson, who controlled the North Carolina based Transylvania Company, which had reached an agreement to purchase the land from the Cherokee in the " Treaty of Sycamore Shoals ".

He had reached Boston and had beaten the warders of the British colony.

Tonti reached French Louisiana and joined the colony.

By May 5 the whole fleet had reached New Providence and on 8 May the colony surrendered.

It was one of the most prosperous colonies in the country, but in the early 1900s the urbananization growth of Mexico City reached the colony and absorbed it.

The Abidjan railway reached Bobo-Diouolasso in 1934, but the growth of the city as a colonial industrial center halted because of the world economic crisis and the suppression of the colony of Upper Volta in 1933.

Scalpsie Bay has a colony of over 200 seals on its beach, which can only be reached on foot across the fields.

By 1931, the population of Kwang-Chou-Wan had reached 206, 000, giving the colony a population density of 245 persons per km² ; virtually all were Chinese, and only 266 French people and four other Europeans were recorded as living there.

In all, the Samoan colony was on its way to self-sufficiency and actually reached that achievement just before Solf was called to Berlin and was succeeded by Erich Schultz as Governor of German Samoa.

The second vessel which reached the colony from England ( on July 11, 1733 ) had among its passengers no less than forty Jewish emigrants.

Cox used his influence so that the prisoners were often allowed up on deck for fresh air, and Holt in his memoirs states that as a result " the ship was the healthiest and best regulated which had ever reached the colony ".

As the time drew near for the drawing of the British-American frontier by terms of the agreement of 1818, the company suspected that the Pembina colony -- its own post and Fort Daer -- was on American territory.

The early policy of Ambracia was determined by its loyalty to Corinth ( for which it probably served as an entrepot in the Epirus trade ), its consequent aversion to Corcyra ( as Ambracia participated on the Corinthian side at the Battle of Sybota, which took place in 433 BC between the rebellious corinthian colony of Corcyra ( modern Corfu ) and Corinth ).

The penal colony was eventually closed on August 15, 1947 when India gained its independence.

Its mythical foundation was attributed to Heracles ( on behalf of his fallen friend Abderus ), its historical one to a colony from Klazomenai.

A committee of public heath was created on 8 December ; on 9 December the inhabitants of Jausiers and its surroundings formed a colony under the direction of general councillor Brès, and Mayor Signoret of Saint-Paul-sur-Ubaye.

The German Empire, in turn, under the " Drang nach Osten " policy, aspired to turn the Ottoman Empire into its own de facto colony, and thus supported its integrity.

By 2003, the Booby colonies on Clipperton boasted 25, 000 Brown Boobies and 112, 000 Masked Boobies, making the atoll the world's second-largest Brown Booby colony, and its largest Masked Booby colony.

Prior to achieving its independence, Cuba was a colony of Spain.

In 1636, Harvard College was founded by the colony to train ministers and the new town was chosen for its site by Thomas Dudley.

Britain merged the island with its adjacent colony of Nova Scotia ( present day peninsular Nova Scotia and New Brunswick ).

The colony of Cape Breton Island had its capital at Sydney on its namesake harbour fronting on Spanish Bay and the Cabot Strait.

In its first century the main economic activity in the colony was the production and processing of sugarcane.

This combination of events, coupled with an ongoing decline in British military and economic support to the region as the Home Office favoured newer colonial endeavours in Africa and elsewhere, led to a call among Maritime politicians for a conference on Maritime Union, to be held in early September 1864 in Charlottetown-chosen in part because of Prince Edward Island's reluctance to give up its jurisdictional sovereignty in favour of uniting with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia into a single colony.

As the French colony of Middle Congo ( Moyen Congo ) also chose the name Republic of Congo upon receiving its independence, the two countries were more commonly known as Congo-Léopoldville and Congo-Brazzaville, after their capital cities.

However, it remained poor and neglected, particularly in contrast with its western, French neighbor Saint-Domingue, which became the wealthiest colony in the New World and had half a million inhabitants.

To accomplish the UK / US mutual defense strategy, in November 1965, the UK purchased the Chagos Archipelago, which includes Diego Garcia, from the then self-governing colony of Mauritius for £ 3 million to create the British Indian Ocean Territory ( BIOT ), with the intent of ultimately closing the plantations to provide the uninhabited British territory from which the US would conduct its military activities in the region.

On July 24, 1936, the Republican cruiser Méndez Núñez arrived at Santa Isabel ; on its way back to Spain the officers planned to join the rebellion, but the Spanish government, knowing this, ordered the ship to go back to the colony ; on August 14 the Méndez Núñez was back in Fernando Poo, where the sailors took control of her ; on September 21 the ship arrived in Málaga ( Republican Spain ).

The Italians created the colony of Eritrea in the 19th century around Asmara, and named it with its current name.

The Mussolini government regarded the colony as a strategic base for future aggrandizement and ruled accordingly, using Eritrea as a base to launch its 1935 – 1936 campaign to colonize Ethiopia.

British forces defeated the Italian army in Eritrea in 1941 at the Battle of Keren and placed the colony under British military administration until Allied forces could determine its fate.

In 1895, French Guinea was made a dependent colony, and its Governor then became a Lieutenant Governor to a Governor-General in Dakar.