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When British children start studying about
Australia, they ask such questions as "Who dis-
covered Australia? James Cook
the
first Englishman to discover Australia, wasn't he?"
For many centuries people in Europe were
certain that there was a land down under, but
nobody
how to get to it.
The Aborigines
to be the
first people to sail there from Asia. They
on the continent for more than
40,000 years.
In the
half of the 16th cen-
tury the northern coasts and waters of Australia
were visited sporadically by Spanish sailors and
from Maritime Southeast Asia.
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Before Captain Cook mapped the east coast
of Australia and claimed it for Great Britain in
1770, explorers from several different countries
to find the unknown southland.
In the 17th century Australia
by the Dutch mostly. In 1606 their ship and crew
led by Willem Janszoon landed in Australia.
There are also reports that the Portuguese
found Australia earlier, in 1522. However, they
by most historians,
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