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[15]: 358 [16]: 42–43 Writing in an academic journal in 1861, Major announced the discovery of a map by Manuel Godinho de Eredia, [17] claiming it proved a Portuguese visit to North Western Australia, possibly dated to 1601. [18] In fact, this map's origins are from 1630.
He made another voyage to the region in 1699, before returning to England. He described some of the flora and fauna of Australia, and was the first European to report Australia's peculiar large hopping animals. Dampier contributed to knowledge of Australia's coastline through his two-volume publication A Voyage to New Holland (1703, 1709
A camp was set up and the flag raised at Sydney Cove, Port Jackson, on 26 January 1788, [21] a date which became Australia's national day, Australia Day. Phillip sent exploratory missions in search of better soils, fixed on the Parramatta region as a promising area for expansion, and moved many of the convicts from late 1788 to establish a ...
Australia is remarkable for the number of explorers who missed it. Some think that the Portuguese reached Australia before 1600 but these theories are difficult to prove. The 1567–1606 Spanish voyages from South America stopped at islands to the east before reaching Australia.
Portugal’s links with Australia may extend as far back as the sixteenth century, predating Captain Cook's voyage to Australia by 250 years. Some evidence suggests that Portuguese explorers were the first Europeans to visit Australia. Three hundred years later, a few Portuguese were among the earliest settlers in Australia.
The Tampa Affair was the catalyst for Australia's current border protection policies, and also became a pivotal issue in the 2001 Australian federal election. [32] In late 2001, Australia began using Christmas Island, Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island as detention centers for asylum seekers. [33]
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Pedro Fernandes de Queirós (Spanish: Pedro Fernández de Quirós) (1563–1614) was a Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain.He is best known for leading several Spanish voyages of discovery in the Pacific Ocean, in particular the 1595–1596 voyage of Álvaro de Mendaña y Neira, and for the 1605–1606 expedition that crossed the Pacific in search of Terra Australis.