When was Australia found?

Question

this is a project?

Answer 1

it was never lost all-ways been in about the same place

Answer 2

40 or 50,000 years ago.

Answer 3

European discovery and the colonisation of Australia.

European mariners



The first records of European mariners sailing into 'Australian' waters occurs around 1606, and includes their observations of the land known as Terra Australis Incognita (unknown southern land). The first ship and crew to chart the Australian coast and meet with Aboriginal people was the Duyfken captained by Dutchman, Willem Janszoon.

Between 1606 and 1770, an estimated 54 European ships from a range of nations made contact. Many of these were merchant ships from the Dutch East Indies Company and included the ships of Abel Tasman. Tasman charted parts of the north, west and south coasts of Australia which was then known as New Holland.

In 1770, Englishman Lieutenant James Cook charted the Australian east coast in his ship HM Barque Endeavour. Cook claimed the east coast under instruction from King George III of England on 22 August 1770 at Possession Island, naming eastern Australia 'New South Wales'.

Answer 4

The Aboriginals have been here for over 40,000 years

See this site on Aboriginal history

http://library.thinkquest.org/28994/abhi...