Australia had many more native animals when it was first discovered than it has now. A small selection of the now-extinct creatures includes:
Australia's first payable gold was officially discovered in Australia in May 1851.
The chinese were said to have discovered Australia and everybody thinks that Captian Cook discovered it but really the first people to discover Australia were the Dutch unless you incude the Aborigines in which case they discovered Australia first.
The first dinosaur discovered in Australia was a small theropod. On 7 May 1903, geologist William Ferguson discovered the claw of the theropod at Cape Paterson in Victoria.
1851 was the year that the first payable gold was discovered in Australia.
No. Whilst Kangaroo Island was the first region settled in South Australia, it was not discovered first. Kangaroo Island was discovered by Matthew Flinders in 1802. Various early Dutch explorers ventured into South Australia's western coastline during the 1600s. South Australia could be said to have been discovered in 1627, when Thijssen recorded the first observations of the South Australian coast.
Some people say humans are not animals but we are.So humans were the first animal discovered!
Wave Rock is near Hyden in Western Australia.
No records exist regarding when Australia was first "discovered" by its indigenous people, whilst records concerning the Polynesians and Maori of New Zealand are not necessarily based on fact. It is likely, however, that Aborigines were in Australia long before any races were on New Zealand. Regarding discovery by Europeans explorers, to our knowledge, the Australian continent was discovered by Europeans, specifically Portuguese explorers, before New Zealand.
The east coast of Australia was first explored by Captain James cook in 1770.
Dirk Hartog was blown onto the shores of Western Australia in 1616. However, he was not the one who discovered Australia. The Australian Aborigines and the Macassan sea traders from Asia had already discovered the continent.Hartog was not even the first European to discover Australia. He had been preceded in 1606 by Willem Jansz.
Mankind has known about (and hunted) animals since the dawn of Human time.
It is believed that the first explorers to discover Australia were Portuguese, but no records still exist.The first recorded explorer on Australia's shores was Dutch (Willem Jansz).