Indigenous Australians have been on the continent for thousands of years. However, Australia was first "officially" discovered in 1616.
The first landing was in 1606. Willem Jansz/Janszoon was a Dutchman who was seeking new trade routes and trade associates. He became the first recorded European to step foot on Australia's shores on the western shore of Cape York Peninsula, in February 1606. However, he believed the Cape to be part of New Guinea, from whence he crossed the Arafura Sea.
In 1616, Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog sailed too far whilst trying out Henderik Brouwer's recently discovered route from the Cape of Good Hope to Batavia, via the Roaring Forties. Reaching the western coast of Australia, he landed at Cape Inscription on 25 October 1616. His is the first known record of a European visiting Western Australia's shores.
The "Pride of Australia" gold nugget was found by a prospector named Rafael Selman in 2016 in the Goldfields region of Western Australia. Weighing 3.23 kilograms, it is one of the largest gold nuggets ever discovered in the region.
Gold was first officially discovered in Australia in February 1851, not far from Bathurst, New South Wales. The official announcement was made in May 1851. Edward Hargraves, with a great deal of assistance from local man John Lister, is the one who has been credited with the discovery.Unofficially, gold seems to have been first discovered in Australia on 15 February 1823, at Fish River in the Bathurst area. Discoveries were kept secret, for fear of sparking off unrest among the convicts.
In 1799 Gold was found in North Carolina, but it didn't amount to much. The 1828 discovery in Georgia was the first Gold Rush.
The largest nugget of gold ever found was the Welcome Stranger nugget, discovered in Australia in 1869, weighing approximately 2316 troy ounces (72 kg).
The Pride of Australia is about 21 cm × 12 cm × 6 cm. That's if it's still in one piece. It was stolen in a smash and grab in 1991 and its fate is unknown. It is unlikely that it still exists as a nugget.
It started a gold rush.
Gold was first found in New South Wales. Unofficially, traces were first found in the Fish River in the 1830s; officially, gold was first found at Ophir in 1851.
1851 was the year of the first official gold discoveries in Australia.
William Chapman first found gold in Echunga, South Australia in 1852.
Western Australia is the state where most of Australia's gold is currently found. It has about half of Australia's working gold mines.
In 1892, gold was found at Coolgardie, Western Australia, sparking off the gold rush in Western Australia.
Not at all. Gold has been known since the time of ancient Egypt.
At the time gold was found in Australia, there was a major gold rush going on in California.
200 pounds.
He didn't.Edward Hargraves found the first payable gold in Australia in February 1851.
Western Australia has about half of Australia's working gold mines.
Metallic gold.