When was Australia settled

Question

i know austrailia has some sort of what americans would call native americans but my question is who were they and how long ago was it that austrailia was settled by europeans .

Answer 1

Information is below.

Answer 2

The first humans arrived in Austalia 48,000 years ago and there ancestors became known as the Aborigines (native Austrailians) numbering 350,000.

The first recorded European sighting of the Australian mainland was made by the Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon, who sighted the coast of Cape York Peninsula in 1606.

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