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Charles Sturt's expedition explained the mystery. It also led to the opening of South Australia to settlement. [10] The theory of the inland sea had some supporters. Major Thomas Mitchell, the Surveyor-General of New South Wales, set out in 1836 to disprove Sturt's claims and in doing so made a significant discovery. He led an expedition to ...
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 ...
A First Fleet of British ships arrived at Botany Bay in January 1788 [2] to establish a penal colony, the first colony on the Australian mainland. In the century that followed, the British established other colonies on the continent , and European explorers ventured into its interior.
The subsequent gold rush led to a huge influx of migrants, with the local population increasing from 29,000 in 1851 to 139,916 in 1861 (Sydney had 93,686 at the time). [2] As a result, Melbourne rapidly grew to become Australia's largest city and the second largest city of the British Empire.
The History of the Exploration of Australia is an outline of exploration in Australia and it's territories. This page is a subpage of WikiProject Australian history. Australian geography, as explained in the works of Australian exploration, might be called an unlearned study. Australia Twice Traversed, by Ernest Giles. Edit this section
Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (15 June 1792 – 5 October 1855), often called Major Mitchell, was a Scottish surveyor and explorer of Southeastern Australia. He was born in Scotland and served in the British Army during the Peninsular War. In 1827 he took up an appointment as Assistant Surveyor General of New South Wales.
See Category:Australian explorers for explorers of Australian nationality. See European Exploration of Australia for an article covering the work done by the explorers. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Explorers of Australia .
[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.