10 000 pounds
The New South Wales government offered a reward of 10,000 pounds to the first person to find gold.
James Cook was neither the first person to discover nor settle Australia.
No, he sailed first to the southeatsern corner of Australia. The first person that could be said to have discovered the west coast of Australia would be Dirk Hartog in 1616.
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 Francois Thijssen recorded the first observations of the South Australian coast.
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 person to discover gold was Jams W Marshall.
The reward for being the first to find a route to the north was 2000 pounds.
Iverville and Bineville were the first people to discover The Louisiana!
Edward Hargraves was born in Australia in 1816. He was the first person to discover gold in Australia, which led to the Australian gold rush. During his time, he was considered to be rich.
Willem Jansz/Janszoon was the first recorded white person to actually "discover" Australia. He 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.
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