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The European exploration of Australia first began in February 1606, when Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon landed in Cape York Peninsula and on October that year when Spanish explorer Luís Vaz de Torres sailed through, and navigated, Torres Strait islands.
The maritime European exploration of Australia consisted of several waves of European seafarers who sailed the edges of the Australian continent. Dutch navigators were the first Europeans known to have explored and mapped the Australian coastline.
in re-designing and expanding the "Maps and Charts" page, which is now a valuable resource when studying the discovery and exploration of Australia, by land and sea, by non-indigenous people.
26 gen 2022 · The Brouwer Route most likely led to the discovery of the western part of Australia by the Dutch in 1616. A decade after Janszoon's 1606 visit to the northeastern corner of Australia, Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog (1580-1621) sailed into Shark Bay on Australia's west coast, 850 kilometres (528 mi) north of Perth.
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4 giorni fa · James Cook was the first recorded explorer to land on the east coast in 1770. He had with him maps showing the north, west and south coasts based on the earlier Dutch exploration.
Charting a portion of the north coast of Australia, the explorers created the first European map of the continent. The Duyfken also landed briefly on western Cape York Peninsula. Its men became the first Europeans to encounter Australian Aboriginal people .
European land exploration of Australia deals with the opening up of the interior of Australia to European settlement which occurred gradually throughout the colonial period, 1788–1900.
