Who was the first European to re-discover Australia?

Answer 1

Rear Admiral Isaac Smith. As a cabin boy he accompanied Captain Cook aboard "The Endeavour" and was the first Englishman to set foot on Australian soil jumping out of the .boat as it reached the shore

Answer 2

Undoubtedly, the first person to come to Australia and leave again, ie visit rather than live, would have been an inhabitant of a south east Asian country. Most likely from Indonesia. This would have occurred some time before the arrival of indigenous settlers. The dating of the oldest remains are a subject of some dispute but are widely agreed to be at least 40 000 years old.

The first recorded European to chart part of the coast of Australia was Willem Janszoon, the captain of the Duyfken, a Dutch ship, in the early 17th Century (around 1606). He visited the west coast of modern day Cape York in Queensland at that time. He actually called that land "Nieu Zeland" but the name didn't catch on.

Answer 3

There is a strong case for the Portuguese being the first Europeans to discover Australia. However, records of such Portuguese activity have been lost through the years.

The first recorded discovery by Europeans was Willem Jansz/Janszoon, a Dutchman who was seeking new trade routes and trade associates. Travelling in a small ship called 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.

Answer 4

It is difficult to determine the first European to map Australia, as so many explorers had a part in mapping different parts of the continent. No single person mapped the entire coastline of Australia.

Rough maps were first made by Dutch explorers to the western and northern coasts, during the 1500s, and they named the unknown land "New Holland". In 1616, Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog accidentally landed on the western coast at Cape Inscription. He was able to give more detailed information on that one corner. In 1642, Abel Tasman discovered the island now called Tasmania, although he called it "Antony Van Diemen's Land" in honour of the High Magistrate, or Governor-General of Batavia. He did not realise at the time that it was not joined to the mainland. The accurate mapping of Tasmania was later completed by George Bass in 1797. In 1697, Dutch sailor Willem de Vlamingh reached New Holland and added more information to the western coastline maps.

Nearly a decade earlier in January 1688, the ship 'Cygnet', belonging to English sea-captain and pirate, William Dampier, was beached on the northwest coast of Australia, at King Sound near Buccaneer Archipelago on the north-west coast of Australia. While the ship was being repaired Dampier made notes on the fauna and flora he found there, and added to the maps of the northwest coast.

The first to chart the eastern coast was Lieutenant James Cook in 1770, and he named many features along the coast, but did not explore every bay and inlet.

It is generally accepted that the mapping of the entire coastline of Australia was done by Matthew Flinders. Between December 1801 and June 1803, Flinders sailed and charted the entire coastline of Australia. During this time, he filled in some of the information Captain Cook had missed in 1770. Flinders is the one most credited with mapping all of Australia, as he was the first to circumnavigate the continent.

Answer 5

James cook >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>your welcome