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Some by ship and some by plane. It is a bit of a long swim.

The first known free settler arrived in Australia from Spain in 1821. He was was J.B.L. De Arrieta, who was granted 2000 acres of fertile land at Morton Park by the NSW colonial government. It is because of him that Spaniard's Hill near Camden is so named.

Generally, there were not many Spanish people prior to the 1930s. This was the time of the Spanish civil war, when around 600,000 Spanish left their homeland for other countries. This was the main reason why Spanish came to Australia. There were still as few as 503 recorded Spanish-born settlers in Australia in 1891. There was a small number of Spanish prospectors on the goldfields in the 1850s, while Spanish tomato-growers moved to Echuca and cane-growers moved to northern Queensland.

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