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Britain had already claimed the eastern half of the continent, and the French had been eyeing off the western half. the Swan River colony was not the first to be established in Western Australia. In 1826, Edmund Lockyer was sent to claim the western half of the Australian continent for Britain. He arrived at King George Sound on Christmas Day in 1826, and established a military base which he named Frederick's Town (now Albany).

In 1829, Captain Charles Fremantle was sent to take formal possession of the remainder of New Holland which had not already been claimed for Britain under the territory of New South Wales. Quite simply, they wished to stake their claim beofre the French did, or before the Dutch changed their mind.

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