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  2. European land exploration of Australia - Wikipedia

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    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. A number of these explorers are very well known, such as Burke and Wills who are well known for their failed attempt to cross the interior of Australia, as ...

  3. European exploration of Australia - Wikipedia

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    The Wiebbe Hayes Stone Fort on West Wallabi Island is the first known European structure to be built in Australia. Abel Tasman's voyage of 1642 was the first known European expedition to reach Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) and New Zealand, and to sight Fiji. On his second voyage of 1644, he also contributed significantly to the mapping of ...

  4. 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land

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    The American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land (also known as the Arnhem Land Expedition) remains one of the most significant, most ambitious and least understood expeditions. [1] Commenced in February 1948, it was one of the largest scientific expeditions to have taken place in Australia and was conducted by a team of Australian ...

  5. New Holland (Australia) - Wikipedia

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    The VOC was a major force behind the early European exploration and mapping of Australia and Oceania. In Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift, the title character, travelling from Houyhnhnms Land, spends a few days on the southeast coast of New Holland before he is chased away by the natives.

  6. List of geoscience organizations - Wikipedia

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    Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG) - Australian non-profit; Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) - Australian non-profit; Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (ASEG) - Australian non-profit; Geological Society of Australia (GSA) – Australian non-profit [1] Geoscience Australia – Agency of the Australian ...

  7. Major explorations after the Age of Discovery - Wikipedia

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    Cook made three voyages to the Pacific, including the first European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands (although oral tradition seems to point towards a far earlier Spanish expedition having achieved the latter), as well as the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. [1]

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