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Who was the explorer who came to Australia before colonization?
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∙ 12y ago
The first known Europeans to live in Australia were the British convicts, officers and marines of the First Fleet.
However, there is considerable evidence to indicate that the first Europeans to live in Australia were survivors of Dutch shipwrecks on the Western coast.
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 13y agoIt is believed that the Portuguese were the first Europeans to sight the Australian continent, but there are no records within Portugal itself to substantiate the claim. The source for this claim are the Dieppe Maps, which date between 1542 and 1587, and which were drawn up by a group of French cartographers using a Portuguese source. These maps name a large land mass believed to be the Australian continent as Java-la-Grande. There is some speculation that the maps, not being to scale, actually represent an exaggerated western Java, possibly even Vietnam.
Willem Jansz/Janszoon was a Dutchman who was seeking new trade routes and trade associates. Commanding the Duyfken, he became the first recorded European to step foot on Australia's shores on the western shore of Cape York Peninsula, on 26 February 1606. However, he believed the Cape to be part of New Guinea, from whence he crossed the Arafura Sea, so he did not record Australia as being a separate, new continent.
In 1616, Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog sailed too far whilst trying out Henderik Brouwer's recently discovered route from the Cape of Good Hope to Batavia, via the Roaring Forties. Reaching the western coast of Australia, he landed at Cape Inscription in Shark Bay on 25 October 1616. His is the first known record of a European visiting Western Australia's shores.
The first Englishman to visit Australia was William Dampier, in 1688.
There were numerous French seamen who explored the waters around Australia, landing in the far southwest and Ven Diemen's Land between 1720 and 1770.
James Cook (not yet a captain) charted the eastern coast of Australia and claimed it in the name of the British in 1770, calling it New South Wales. He charted the east coast between April and August of that year. For this reason, Cook is often wrongly credited with discovering Australia.
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∙ 12y agoThere were numerous explorers who came across Australian long before colonisation. They included Willem Jansz (1606), Dirk Hartog (1616), Willem de Vlamingh (1696) and William Dampier (1688), among others.
Abel Tasman was the first European explorer to discover Tasmania, the island state of Australia. He discovered the island in 1642.
Arguably, the most famous explorer to reach Australia before colonisation was James Cook (1770).
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∙ 12y agothe earliest European explorers in Australia is WILLEM JANSZOON.
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∙ 14y ago* Dirk Hartog (Dutch) * Willem Jansz (Dutch) * William Dampier (English) * Lieutenant James Cook and Sir Joseph Banks (English) * Daniel Solander (Finnish botanist with James Cook)
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