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Australia (Bookshelf) From Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free ebooks. Jump to: navigation search Contents History General Discovery and Exploration Pre European Settlement ... Uncategorized History General A Source Book of Australian History Swinburne, Gwendolen H. History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890 Sutherland, Alexander, 1852-1902 The History of Tasmania by West, John Vol 2 Le Tour du Monde; Australie: Journal des voyages et des voyageurs; 2. sem. 1860 French ) Charton, Édouard Discovery and Exploration The European exploration of Australia encompasses several waves of seafarers and land explorers. Although Australia is often said to have been discovered by Royal Navy Lt. (later Captain) James Cook in 1770, he was merely one of a number of European explorers to have sighted and landed on the continent prior to English settlement, and he did so 164 years after the first such documented encounter. Nor did the exploration of Australia end with Cook; explorers by land and sea continued to survey the continent for many years after settlement. [ Wikipedia Pre European Settlement Although it is possible that the Portuguese Luis Vaez de Torres and Pedro Fernandes de Queirós could have sighted Australia in 1605, the first documented and undisputed European sighting (and landing) of Australia was in 1606, by the Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon aboard the Duyfken ... The most significant exploration of Australia in the 1600s was by the Dutch. [

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