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Explorers from Portugal, Holland (the Netherlands), France and Great Britain explored Australia before 1820.

Macassan traders from Indonesia also explored along the coastline for sea slugs (a delicacy) hundreds of years before the Portuguese sailors came anywhere near the continent.

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