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Captain Cook never sailed anywhere near Australia's western coast, so he had no opportunity to think anything of the Swan River. Dutch captain Willem de Vlamingh named the Swan River in 1697 because of the black swans he saw in abundance there. In 1826, Edmund Lockyer was sent to claim the western half of the Australian continent for Britain. Cook never ventured beyond the eastern coast.

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