Who found Australia?? (not the abroriginals)?

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holly

The Aboriginals have been here for over 40,000 years, you can't change that.

happy d

"The aboriginals" - sounds like a rock band.

The aborigines are the indigenous population of Australia, Europeans may have "discovered" Australia and colonised it but they certainly were not the first people there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Australians

lladnylnavillus

In 1606 people from the Netherlands, France, and Britain found the land currently known as Australia. First they found the north and west coast. This was dry and apparently uninhabitable land, and they found no economic reasons to stay. But in 1770 an English sailor, Captain James Cook, encountered the east coast of Australia. He called it New South Wales, and claimed it for Britain. He thought it would be a good place to settle.

Ergot W

If you are determined to exclude indigenous people then look at Chinese people, or (with stronger evidence just now) people from the Macassar area who were visiting northern Australia hundreds of years ago.

Karl

Cook's the name, and explorings my game.

Cherrie pie

CAPTAIN JAMES COOK

Anastasia K

Captain Came-And-Took-Cook. BTW, love the Cloud icon

Iskandar

Founded is different thing to found, you do know that?

Who found Australia, probably some Dutchman or Spaniard.

Bella B

Okay the Aboriginal people found Australia and have been here for 40000 to 60000.

However Australia was first recorded by Europeans by the 1600's usually the Dutch are credited. They'd go down Africa and across on the "Trade Winds" to get to Indonesia and the spices trades and go up west of Western Australia's coast but sometimes they'd strike the north of Western Australia.

Cptn Cook did a large reconaissance on the east coast.

wotzthepoint?

well that depends, was it lost?

50,000+ yrs are we've been wondering around lost?

saravanan_lkb

cooks..

Elizabeth

The east coast of Australia was claimed for the British throne by Lieutenant (later Captain) James Cook in 1770.
The British government turned the east coast into a penal colony under Governor Arthur Phillip in 1788.

Possibly the first European to set foot on the Australian continent was William Dampier, and the mission with which he was associated. They were possibly the first to land on the continent and make significant observations.

Early in January 1688, with Dampier as crew, the English pirate ship Cygnet was beached on the northwest Australian coast, somewhere in the vicinity of King Sound in Western Australia.

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Captain Cook

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