Is der any evidince 2 say dat the portuguese descovered austrailia first?

Question

Is der any evidince 2 say dat the portuguese descovered austrailia first?

Answer 1

No there's no proof any Portuguese explorers discovered Australia.

There are many seafarers, who came across Australia before 1770, listed on the website below.

1606 - Willem Janszoon in the Duyfken entered the Gulf of Carpentaria then he followed Australia's coast to Cape Keerweer then turned the Duyfken around while still in Queensland waters.

1616 - Dirk Hartog in the Eendracht discovered Australia's west coast at Latitude 26 degrees S.

Answer 2

Not Australia but Timor Timor which is now called Timor Leste

Answer 3

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Answer 4

It is believed that the Dutch were the first to discover Australia.

In March1606 Willem Janszoon (a.k.a. Willem Jansz), on board the Duyfken, charted about 300 km of the west coast of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland. He is the first authenticated discoverer of Australia.

Answer 5

Real hard evidence no, but since the portuguese sailed all around Indonesia, New Guinea and Borneo, it's almost certain that they were the first europeans to at least sight or even land in Australia, Timor, a portuguese ex-colony is very, very close to Australia. For a portuguese ship that would come all the way from Portugal to Timor, the short distance from there to Australia would mean nothing.

The thing is the portuguese were known for it's top-secret policy regarding exploration, to tis day there are many voyages which are known only through spanish or dutch spies. For example, in the 1470's several joint expeditions portuguese/danish (in which Columbus, married to a protuguese and libing in Madeira participated) explored and charted the north-atlantic all the way to Greenland.

And in 1476 the portuguese king rewarded the chief explorer for the north-atlantic, Joao Fernandes Lavrador for discovering the "Codfish Land", today most historians agree that what he discovered was Labrador and Newfoundland, 20 years before Columbus. Actually, Labrador was named after his name.

It's a question of time until some document or a ship is found near Australia, which would only be natural and no surprise to any historian, bear in mind that the portuguese were the first europeans to reach the Spice Islands and remained there, controlling all trade alone, for at least 100 years before the dutch even came.