Who claimed Australia for Great Britain?

James Cook claimed Australia for Great Britain.

James Cook was a Lieutenant, not a Captain, when he claimed the eastern half of Australia for Great Britain.

(Lieutenant) James Cook claimed the east coast of Australia for Great Britain in 1770.

First the Portuguese, then the Dutch, the Great Britain.

Lieutenant James Cook (later Captain) first claimed New Zealand and Australia for Great Britain.

Captain Cook claimed Australia for Great Britain in 1770

Yes. Great Britain claimed and settled Australia, using the continent as a penal colony (and later, a series of penal colonies) for its excess prisoners. Great Britain also used Australia to increase its presence in the Pacific.

When James Cook claimed the eastern half of Australia for Great Britain, he named it "New South Wales", the name still held by one of the states.

James Cook (a Lieutenant when he arrived in Australia, not a captain) claimed the east coast of Australia for Great Britain in 1770. He named it New South Wales.

In 1770, Lieutenant James Cook (not yet a Captain) claimed "New South Wales", which was actually Australia's eastern half, for Britain. He claimed the east coast under instruction from King George III of England, but did not claim the western half.He also claimed New Zealand for Great Britain.

James Cook was not a captain, but a lieutenant when he claimed Australia for Great Britain on 22 August 1770.

Botany Bay, I hope that helped!

James Cook was still a lieutenant and not yet a captain when he named the eastern half of Australia as New South Wales, and claimed it in the name of Great Britain in 1770.

James Cook did not "take" Australia. He did, however, claim part of Australia for great Britain. James Cook was the first known European to sail up and chart the eastern coast of Australia, which he claimed for Great Britain under the name of New South Wales.

Britain first claimed both Australia and New Zealand.

Australia was claimed by Great Britain and colonized by British prisoners. During the Civil War, Australia was still a remote outpost of Great Britain, with no appreciable effect on the war. Of the British colonies, Canada and Jamaica would have had much more of a bearing on the Civil War due to their proximity.

Captain Charles Fremantle officially claimed New Holland (now Western Australia) for Great Britain on 2 May 1829. The colony did not become known as Western Australia until a month later, on 8 June.

Lieutenant James Cook claimed the eastern seaboard of Australia in 1770, naming it New South Wales. The First Fleet of English convicts, together with officers, marines and their families, arrived in 1788.

Lieutenant James Cook, later promoted to Captain. He sailed this vessel to the eastern coast of Australia, which he claimed for Great Britain. See related link

James Cook (not yet a captain) claimed New South Wales for Great Britain in 1770.

I think that it was claimed by both the French and the English ( Great Britain).

Not at all. Great Britain is in the northern hemisphere. Australia is in the southern hemisphere.

which war are you asking about

In the 1700s, Britain claimed and settled into Australia, as Britain declared the island and continent sparsely uninhabited, or, 'terra nulius', under which they began to rule this territory.

They are claimed by both Great Britain and Argentina, but are typically referred to as a territory of Great Britain

No . . . Australia is a loyal ally to Great Britain.

James Cook, who was not yet a captain when he first visited Australia, did not call it anything. However, he claimed just the eastern coastline for Great Britain under the name of "New South Wales".

Great Britain beat Australia at the 2008 Olympics

Convicts from Great Britain were sent to Australia between the years of 1788 and 1868.

Captain Charles Fremantle was the one who was sent to take formal possession of the western half of the continent, which had not already been claimed for Britain under the territory of New South Wales. On 2 May 1829, Captain Fremantle raised the Union Jack on the south head of the Swan River, thus claiming the territory for Britain.

James Cook claimed Australia for Britain under the name of New South Wales at Botany Bay.

Australia was claimed by England in 1770 and initially settled in 1788. So pick a date.

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U.S and Great Britain

Australia was first claimed for Britain in 1770. James Cook was the first European to chart the eastern coast, naming it New South Wales and claiming it for Britain in April 1770.

Great Britain sent convicts to Australia on the First Fleet, along with officers and soldiers to guard them.

Easy answer, Yes. Australia and Britain were/are allies as Britain was once seen as a "Mother Country" and promised to always help Australia if they were ever introuble, as did Australia for Britain.

The three nations that claimed what is now New York City were Holland, Great Britain, and France. Great Britain held it the longest before the United States gained its independence.

Yes. Before North Dakota became part of the Dakota Territory, it was part of two different territories, one claimed by Great Britain and one claimed by France. The part claimed by Great Britain (British North America) was known as the Columbia District of the Hudson's Bay Company and was obtained by the USA in the Treaty of 1818.

Australia was originally colonised by Great Britain. When independence occurred over a period of about 86 years, it was gained from Great Britain.

No, Australia and New Zealand have not broken all their ties with Great Britain.

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Great Britain and France.

Countries that claimed land in the Americas: Spain Portugal Great Britain France The Netherlands Denmark Germany Russia Sweden Countries that claimed land in what is now the United States of America: Great Britain Spain France Denmark The Netherlands Russia Sweden

Argentina and Great Britain have both claimed them, bur Britain retains them.

In 1770, James Cook claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain. In 1788, the first convicts arrived.

In 1801, the parliaments of Britain and Ireland merged and their title became 'The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland'.

Great Britain.

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