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AUSTRALIA<br />
5 surprising facts about…<br />
THE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA<br />
EUROPEAN EXPLORERS CLAIM ‘TERRA AUSTRALIS’ FOR ENGLAND AUSTRALASIA, 18TH CENTURY<br />
The Dutch<br />
01 found it first…<br />
Many believe that Captain<br />
James Cook was the first to<br />
find Australia in 1770, but in<br />
fact it was Willem Janszoon,<br />
a Dutch navigator, in 1606.<br />
English explorer William<br />
Dampier charted the west<br />
coast in 1688 while Willem De<br />
Vlamingh charted the southwestern<br />
coast in 1696, all<br />
before Captain Cook arrived.<br />
… but Cook<br />
02 claimed it<br />
After sighting the southeastern<br />
corner of Australia,<br />
Cook claimed the land<br />
as England’s possession<br />
and named the area New<br />
South Wales. After his ship<br />
Endeavour entered Botany Bay<br />
on 29 April 1770, Captain Cook<br />
wrote about Aboriginal people<br />
on the island: “<strong>All</strong> they seem’d<br />
to want was us to be gone.”<br />
Tasmania was<br />
03 considered<br />
part of the mainland<br />
Matthew Flinders was an<br />
English explorer, naval officer<br />
and navigator who sailed<br />
around the entirety of Australia<br />
and mapped much of its<br />
coastline. He and George Bass<br />
were the first Europeans to<br />
discover that Tasmania was in<br />
fact an island, and they then<br />
sailed around it.<br />
04<br />
It wasn’t<br />
called<br />
Australia until 1817<br />
Before the Dutch arrived,<br />
the land was known only as<br />
‘Terra Australis Incognita’ or<br />
‘Unknown South Land’. The<br />
Dutch called it New Holland.<br />
The name Australia, derived<br />
from the Latin for ‘south’, was<br />
popularised by Flinders from<br />
1804, but it was not officially<br />
used until 13 years later in 1817.<br />
The French<br />
05 were just<br />
days too late<br />
In 1788, the first British citizens<br />
arrived in Australia to establish<br />
a penal colony. The faster<br />
ships entered Botany Bay on<br />
19 January, while slower ones<br />
arrived the day after. Just<br />
days later, on 24 January, two<br />
French ships came ashore but<br />
they were too late to claim<br />
Australia for their own.<br />
AT A GLANCE<br />
© Alamy<br />
18<br />
Plenty set out in the hope of<br />
finding the large southern land,<br />
but not all made it successfully.<br />
Discovered in the 17th century<br />
and claimed as a British<br />
possession, Australia is now<br />
home to more than 24 million<br />
people and is one of the richest<br />
countries in the world.
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