History

 History

It is anticipated that the first residents of Australia came from Indonesia over 50000 years ago, spreading across the continent. The first European that explored a little of Australia, was the Spanish captain Luis Vaez de Torres. After that it appeared Dutch explorers and navigators like Abel Janszoon Tasman. He mapped almost the whole north-coast of Australia. The first Englishman to visit the country was the adventurer and pirate William Dampier. He explored the coast of Australia in 1699. Eighty years after this a man called James Cooks came and declared that the new country belonged to England and the name of the country was New South Wales.

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