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The Portuguese were the first to discover Australia, Although for generations it has been taught around Australia to the primary students that the British and Captain James Cook discovered Australia in 1770 and were our first colonists, we now have the evidence to prove that the Portuguese, lead by Prince Henry the Navigator, were indeed the first to discover Australia. Although the harsh environment of Australia discouraged other nations from colonisation it was the hardy British who decided to take on these conditions.
There have been many cases of evidence that have arisen to support that the Portuguese were here, on our great land Australia, first. The less than infamous Mahogany ship in Warrnambool, Captain Cook’s statement in his diary that the bay ‘was much bigger than I was lead to believe’, The Portuguese cannons on Carronade Island, the discovery of a gravestone with Portuguese initials and date engraved on.
So was it in fact, the Portuguese that discovered Australia first, or was it Captain Cook?
The Infamous Mahogany ship at Warrnambool, 236 km northeast of Melbourne suggest that the Portuguese were first to arrive in Australia. ... Ancient Portuguese maps, the Dieppe maps, report an expedition in 1522 ending off the coast of Warrnambool and it is suspected that this, the mahogany ship, may be that ship.
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