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In August 1770, Lieutenant James Cook (later Captain Cook) took possession of the eastern seaboard of Australia from Possession Island. Possession Island lies in Torres Strait, and after charting much of the eastern coast, Cook landed on what is now called Possession Island, and claimed, as he recorded, "the whole eastern coast, from latitude 38 degrees S to this place, latitude 10.5 degrees S, in right of His Majesty King George the Third". He claimed it for Great Britain under the name of New South Wales.

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