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Lieutenant James Cook (not yet a captain when he charted the east coast of Australia) did not name the continent, but just the eastern coastline. He gave it the name of New South Wales as he took possession "of 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".

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