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The first Europeans we have evidence of were the Portuguese, whose maps of the 1520s were copied into maps we still have today.

When the Dutch usurped the Portuguese possessions in the East Indies a century later, they made regular landfalls in western Australia, and explored the northern and southern coasts.

The first settlement was in 1788 when a British military colony with convict labour was established in eastern Australia as one of a chain of military bases to protect the East India Company's trade: in botany Bay's case, with China and with other subsidiary objectives.

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Europeans first arrived in Australia in 1770 when Captain James Cook landed on the east coast of the continent. However, permanent European settlement began in 1788 with the arrival of the First Fleet, led by Captain Arthur Phillip, which established a convict colony in what is now Sydney.

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