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+ | ====== Who Discovered Australia? | ||
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+ | The Aborigines were in Australia from 40 to 80 thousand years. | ||
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+ | The first known landing in Australia by Europeans was in 1606 by Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon. | ||
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+ | Later that year, Spanish explorer Luís Vaz de Torres sailed through, and navigated, what is now called Torres Strait and associated islands. | ||
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+ | Twenty-nine other Dutch navigators explored the western and southern coasts in the 17th century and named the continent New Holland. | ||
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+ | On 5 January 1688, privateer (pirate) William Dampier, ship name the Cygnet " | ||
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+ | Macassan trepangers visited Australia' | ||
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+ | Other European explorers followed. | ||
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+ | In 1770, Lieutenant or Leftenant James Cook charted the east coast of Australia for Great Britain. He returned to London with accounts favouring colonization at Botany Bay (now in Sydney). | ||
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+ | A First Fleet of British ships arrived at Botany Bay in January 1788 to establish a penal colony, the first colony on the Australian mainland. In the century that followed, the British established other colonies on the continent. |