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HISTORY of AUSTRALIA

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  • DIRK HARTOG

    DIRK HARTOG
    Dutch captain Dirk Hartog in the Eendracht made the second recorded landfall by a European, at Dirk Hartog Island on the western coast of Australia. He left behind a commemorative plate, the Hartog Plate.

  • WILLIAM DAMPIER

    WILLIAM DAMPIER
    ENGLISH EXPLORER WILLIAM DAMPIER EXPLORED THE WEST COAST OF AUSTRALIA.

  • CAPTAIN JAMES COOK

    CAPTAIN JAMES COOK
    CAPTAIN JAMES COOK SAILED AROUND AUSTRALIA. COOK NAMED THE AREA NEW SOUTH WALES. HE IGNORED THE ABORIGINES LIVING THERE AND CLAIMED THE LAND FOR ENGLAND. SAILORS ALSO MAPPED THE EASTERN AUSTRALIA.

  • BRITISH

    BRITISH
    BRITISH SHIPS WERE CALLED,"THE FLEET"

  • NEW SOUTH WALES

    NEW SOUTH WALES
    1788-1832 NEW SOUTH WALES WAS OFFICALLY A PENAL.

  • PENAL

    A penal colony was founded at Moreton Bay, now the city of Brisbane

  • TRIBES

    TRIBES
    REMANTS OF THE TRIBES IN THE SETTLED AREA WERE MOVED ONTO RESERVES.

  • PRISONORS in AUSTRALIA

    PRISONORS in AUSTRALIA
    1833-1850 NEW SOUTH WALES WAS THE DESTINATION FOR THE HARDEST OF CONVICTED BRITISH AND IRISH CRIMINALS.

  • WILLIAM de VIAMINGH

    WILLIAM de VIAMINGH
    Dutch explorer Willem de Vlamingh charted the southwestern coast of Australia, making a landfall at Rottnest Island and the site of the present-day city of Perth.

  • PERTH

    THE SETTLEMENT OF PERTHWAS FOUNDED