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The first known white man to be buried in Australia was Forby Sutherland. Sutherland, who died of tuberculosis, was one of James Cook's crew when Cook charted the eastern coast in 1770. He was buried on a southern beach in botany Bay on 1 May 1770.

However, no doubt there were many more white people buried before this. There had been Dutch shipwrecks off Australia's western coast since the early 1600s, and there is evidence to show that survivors of these shipwrecks lived along the west coast, establishing unofficial settlements. When they died, they would have been buried on Australian soil.

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