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Aboard ship was the Aboriginal explorer Bungaree, of the Sydney district, who became the first person born on the Australian continent to circumnavigate the Australian continent. [37] Previously, the famous Bennelong and a companion had become the first people born in the area of New South Wales to sail for Europe, when, in 1792 they ...
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. The first documented encounter was that of Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon, in 1606. Dutch ...
European powers employed sailors and geographers to map and explore North America with the goal of economic, religious and military expansion. The combative and rapid nature of this exploration is the result of a series of countering actions by neighboring European nations to ensure no single country had garnered enough wealth and power from ...
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 ...
The history of Australia from 1788 to 1850 covers the early British colonial period of Australia's history. This started with the arrival in 1788 of the First Fleet of British ships at Port Jackson on the lands of the Eora , and the establishment of the penal colony of New South Wales as part of the British Empire .
Geographical exploration, sometimes considered the default meaning for the more general term exploration, refers to the practice of discovering remote lands and regions of the planet Earth. [1] It is studied by geographers and historians.
Central America and Latin America: 1799–1803 Alexander von Humboldt: Northwest Plateau of North America: 1804–1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition: The North Magnetic Pole: 1831-06-01 James Clark Ross: Australia: c. 1640 Makassar People before. Explored by Abel Tasman. Interior of Africa 1851–1873 David Livingstone: The Burke and Wills ...
According to Tony Disney, McIntyre's theory influenced a generation of history teachers in Australian schools. [27] A TV documentary was made of the book in the 1980s by Michael Thornhill [ 28 ] and McIntyre and the theory featured in many positive newspaper reviews and articles over the next twenty years. [ 29 ]