"20th century, until finally, a group of Pintupi people of the Gibson Desert became the last people to be contacted by outsider ways in 1984. While much knowledge was lost, Aboriginal art, music and culture, often scorned by Europeans during the initial phases of contact, survived and in time came to be celebrated by the wider Australian community. The first known landing in Australia by Europeans was by Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon in 1606. Twenty-nine other Dutch navigators explored the western and southern coasts in the 17th century, and dubbed the continent New Holland. Macassan trepangers visited Australia's northern coasts"
"and copper maps of the hemispheres on the floor of The Citizens’ Hall of the Royal Palace Amsterdam Willem Janszoon Willem Janszoon (; ), sometimes abbreviated to Willem Jansz., was a Dutch navigator and colonial governor. Janszoon served in the Netherlands East Indies in the periods 16031611 and 16121616, including as governor of Fort Henricus on the island of Solor. He is the first European known to have seen the coast of Australia during his voyage of 16051606. Willem Janszoon was born around 1570, but nothing is known of his early life. Janszoon is first recorded as entering into the"
"Willem Janszoon Willem Janszoon (; ), sometimes abbreviated to Willem Jansz., was a Dutch navigator and colonial governor. Janszoon served in the Netherlands East Indies in the periods 16031611 and 16121616, including as governor of Fort Henricus on the island of Solor. He is the first European known to have seen the coast of Australia during his voyage of 16051606. Willem Janszoon was born around 1570, but nothing is known of his early life. Janszoon is first recorded as entering into the service of the ""Oude compagnie"", one of the predecessors of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), in 1598"
"the name was not adopted, and was later used by Dutch cartographers for New Zealand. In 1607, Admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge sent Janzoon to Ambon and Banda. In 1611, Janzoon returned to the Netherlands, believing that the south coast of New Guinea was joined to the land along which he had sailed, and Dutch maps reproduced that error for many years. Though there have been suggestions that earlier navigators from China, France or Portugal may have discovered parts of Australia earlier, the ""Duyfken"" is the first European vessel definitely known to have done so. Janszoon reported that on 31"
"such landfall was in 1616, when Dirk Hartog landed at Cape Inscription on what is now known as Dirk Hartog Island, off the coast of Western Australia, and left behind an inscription on a pewter plate. In 1697 the Dutch captain Willem de Vlamingh landed on the island and discovered Hartog's plate. He replaced it with one of his own, which included a copy of Hartog's inscription, and took the original plate home to Amsterdam, where it is still kept in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. In 1627, the VOC's explorers François Thijssen and Pieter Nuyts discovered the south coast of Australia"
"in the early 17th century. The first European to sight Western Australia was the Dutch explorer, Dirk Hartog, the first European to suggest to have found a continent there, who on 26 October 1616 landed at what is now known as Cape Inscription, Dirk Hartog Island. Before departing, Hartog left behind an inscribed pewter plate affixed to a post. In 1696 the plate was discovered and replaced by Willem de Vlamingh and repatriated to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. A multitude of Dutch visits followed during that century, charting virtually the whole of the west coast, the West Australian south coast"
"Nieuw Holland by the Dutch. The Dutch charted the western side of Cape York Peninsula and the coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria. Willem Janszoon made the first recorded European landfall in Australia during the Janszoon voyage of 1605-6. Other places were given Dutch names by later explorers or colonists in honour of the Dutch. These include: Australian places with Dutch names Of an estimated 200 place names the Dutch bestowed on Australian localities in the 17th century as a result of the Dutch voyages of exploration along the western, northern and southern Australian coasts, only about 35 can still"
"recognised in 2004. The first European explorer to visit the region (and Australia) was the Dutch Willem Janszoon (whose name is also written as Jansz) in his 1605–6 voyage. His fellow countryman, Jan Carstenszoon (or ""Carstensz""), visited in 1623 and named the gulf in honour of Pieter de Carpentier, at that time the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. Abel Tasman also explored the coast in 1644. The region was later explored and charted by Matthew Flinders in 1802 and 1803. The first overland expedition to reach the Gulf was the Burke and Wills expedition, led by Robert O'Hara Burke"
"of these landfalls were unplanned. The first such landfall was in 1616, when Dirk Hartog, employed by VOC, reached land at Shark Bay (on what is now called Dirk Hartog Island) off the coast of Western Australia. Finding nothing of interest, Hartog continued sailing northwards along this previously undiscovered coastline of Western Australia, making nautical charts up to about 22° latitude south. He then left the coast and continued on to Batavia. He called Australia ""T Landt van d'Eendracht"" (shortened to Eendrachtsland), after his ship, a name which would be in use until Abel Tasman named the land New Holland"
"arrive in the early 17th century. The first European to visit Western Australia was a Dutch explorer, Dirk Hartog, who on 25 October 1616 landed at what is now known as Cape Inscription, Dirk Hartog Island. For the rest of the 17th century, other Dutch and British navigators encountered the coast, usually unintentionally, as demonstrated by the many shipwrecks along the coast of ships that deviated from the Brouwer Route (because of poor navigation and storms). Two hundred years passed before Europeans believed that the great southern continent actually existed. By the late 18th century, British and French sailors had"
"than 1%. Of Australian residents born in the Netherlands, 59,502 (75%) were Australian citizens. 61% of Dutch-born Australians recorded their religion as Christian, and 29% were irreligious. Dutch Australians Dutch Australians refers to Australians with full or partial Dutch ancestry. They form one of the largest groups of the Dutch diaspora outside Europe. The history of the Dutch and Australia began in 1606 with Captain Willem Janszoon, a Dutch seafarer, who landed on Australian soil, the first European to do so. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) operated mainly from Batavia (modern-day Jakarta). The journey from the Netherlands to the"
"29 April, she became the first European vessel to make landfall on the east coast of Australia, when Cook landed one of the ship's boats on the southern shore of what is now known as Botany Bay, New South Wales. For the next four months, Cook charted the coast of Australia, heading generally northward. Just before 11 pm on 11 June 1770, the ship struck a reef, today called Endeavour Reef, within the Great Barrier Reef system. The sails were immediately taken down, a kedging anchor set and an unsuccessful attempt was made to drag the ship back to open"
"this route, or was perhaps blown a little off course, is not clear, even to this day. After approximately two months at sea, on 25 October Hartog and the ""Eendracht"" unexpectedly sighted land — ""various islands, which were, however, found uninhabited"" —, at a latitude around 26° South. These islands and the nearby land were previously unknown to Europeans, and unwittingly the ""Eendracht"" had become the second recorded European ship to visit the continent of Australia, having been preceded (albeit, on the opposite side of the continent) 10 years earlier by Willem Janszoon and the ""Duyfken"" when they sailed along"
"Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, near the modern town of Weipa. Janszoon named the river ""R. met het Bosch"", but it is now known as the Pennefather River. This is the first recorded European landfall on the Australian continent. He proceeded over Albatross Bay to Archer Bay, the confluence of the Archer and the Watson Rivers, which he named ""Dubbelde Rev"" (Dutch for double river) and then on to Dugally River, which he named the ""Visch"" (Dutch for fish). According to the VOC’s Instructions to Tasman in 1644, Janszoon discovered of coast from 5 to degrees southern latitude, but found"
"Westphalia. In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain seeking a direct route to Asia. He accidentally stumbled upon the Americas, but believed he had reached the East Indies. In 1606, the Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon sailed from the East Indies in the VOC ship Duyfken and landed in Australia. He charted about 300 km of the west coast of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland. More than thirty Dutch expeditions followed, mapping sections of the north, west and south coasts. In 1642-1643, Abel Tasman circumnavigated the continent, proving that it was not joined to the imagined south"
"in two distinct voyages in the period 1642–1644 is recorded as the first person to have coastally explored regions of the respective landforms including Van Diemen's Land – later named for him as the Australian state of Tasmania. The first voyage of James Cook stands as significant for the circumnavigation of New Zealand in 1769 and as the European discovery and first ever coastal navigation of Eastern Australia from April to August 1770. The European settlement of Australia and New Zealand, then referred to as the colony of New South Wales, dates from the arrival of the First Fleet into"
"they would have discovered eastern Australia approximately one hundred and fifty years before the British did, in 1770, as the Dutch had been successful in mapping most of the west coast of Australia during the early 17th century following Willem Janszoon's sighting of the Cape York Peninsula in 1606. The shallow western end of Endeavour Strait was also responsible for the wrecking of the cutter, ""America"", in November 1844. All on board were supposedly drowned, except 13-year-old Scottish girl Barbara Thompson who was rescued by Torres Strait Islanders living on Prince of Wales Island, the Kaurareg people, with whom she"
"Economic history of Australia The economic history of Australia traces the economic history of Australia since European settlement in 1788. The first European settlement of Australia took place on 26 January 1788 at Port Jackson (modern Sydney, New South Wales), when the First Fleet brought more than 1,000 convicts, marines and seamen, and a vast quantity of stores to found the penal colony of New South Wales. The United Kingdom claimed all of eastern portion of the Australian landmass as its territory on the basis of terra nullius, though the actual landing and consequent settlement was confined to the Port"
"the first known European expedition to reach Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) and New Zealand, and to sight Fiji. On his second voyage of 1644, he also contributed significantly to the mapping of Australia proper, making observations on the land and people of the north coast below New Guinea. A map of the world inlaid into the floor of the ""Burgerzaal"" (""Burger's Hall"") of the new Amsterdam ""Stadhuis"" (""Town Hall"") in 1655 revealed the extent of Dutch charts of much of Australia's coast. Based on the 1648 map by Joan Blaeu, ""Nova et Accuratissima Terrarum Orbis Tabula"", it incorporated Tasman's"
"through the strait only four months later. However, Torres did not report seeing the coast of a major land mass to his south and is therefore presumed not to have seen Australia. Because the two separate observations of Janzoon and Torres were not matched, Dutch maps did not include the strait until after James Cook's 1770 passage through the Torres Strait, while early Spanish maps showed the coast of New Guinea correctly, but omitted Australia. Janszoon travelled to the Dutch East Indies in 1598 for the ""Oude compagnie"" and became an officer of the Dutch East India Company ("""" (VOC)"
"New Holland (Australia) New Holland (; ) is a historical European name for mainland Australia. The name was first applied to Australia in 1644 by the Dutch seafarer Abel Tasman. The name came to be applied to the whole ""Southern land"" or ""Terra Australis"", though the coastline of the continent had still not been fully explored; but after the British settlement in Sydney in 1788 the territory to the east of the continent claimed by Britain was named ""New South Wales"", leaving the western part as New Holland. New Holland continued to be used semi-officially and in popular usage as"
"following six months charting the New Zealand coast, before resuming their voyage westward across open sea. In April 1770 they became the first Europeans to reach the east coast of Australia, making landfall at Point Hicks, and then proceeding to Botany Bay. The expedition continued northward along the Australian coastline, narrowly avoiding shipwreck on the Great Barrier Reef. In October 1770 the badly damaged ""Endeavour"" came into the port of Batavia in the Dutch East Indies, her crew sworn to secrecy about the lands they had discovered. They resumed their journey on 26 December, rounded the Cape of Good Hope"
"the collection of the National Museum of Australia. The Aboriginal occupation of Queensland is thought to predate 50,000 BC, likely via boat or land bridge across Torres Strait, and became divided into over 90 different language groups. During the last ice age Queensland's landscape became more arid and largely desolate, making food and other supplies scarce. This led to the world's first seed-grinding technology. Warming again made the land hospitable, which brought high rainfall along the eastern coast, stimulating the growth of the state's tropical rainforests. In February 1606, Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon landed near the site of what is"
"the first ever European ship built in Australia. On 26 March, 88 men set off on the one-month journey to Batavia. Six died on the way, leaving 82 of the initial 208 to arrive in Batavia on 30 April 1728. Batavia's High Court of Justice prosecuted skipper Jan Steyns for losing the ""Zeewijk"" and falsifying the ship's records. He lost his position, salary and property to the Company. In 1840 HMS ""Beagle"" found relics at the camp site, including a VOC cannon and two coins dated 1707 and 1720 which helped to confirm that the site belonged to the ""Zeewijk""."
"Lieutenant (later Captain) James Cook, in command of HMS ""Endeavour"", sailed along the east coast of Australia, becoming the first known Europeans to do so. On 19 April 1770, the crew of the ""Endeavour"" sighted the east coast of Australia and ten days later landed at a bay in what is now southern Sydney. The ship's naturalist, Sir Joseph Banks, was so impressed by the volume of flora and fauna hitherto unknown to European science, that Cook named the inlet ""Botany Bay"". Cook charted the East coast to its northern extent and, on 22 August, at Possession Island in the"
"July 1618, he had landed on an island at 22° South with a length of 22 miles and 240 miles SSE of the Sunda Strait. This is generally interpreted as a description of the peninsula from Point Cloates () to North West Cape () on the Western Australian coast, which Janszoon presumed was an island, without fully circumnavigating it. Around 1617/18 he was back in the Netherlands and was appointed as a member of the Council of the Indies. He served as admiral of the Dutch Defense fleet. Janszoon was awarded a gold chain worth 1,000 guilders in 1619 for"
"War was there significant migration from the Netherlands to Australia. This certainly does not mean that they have not made a contribution to Australia. As individuals many have made an impressive and lasting contribution to their adopted country. Dutchman Abel Tasman was the first European to sight New Zealand in December 1642, though he was attacked by Māori before he could land in the area at the northwestern tip of the South Island now known as Golden Bay. As a result, the nation was subsequently named ""Nieuw-Zeeland"" by Dutch cartographers after the Dutch province of Zeeland. The modern migration of"
"Wales started with the establishment of a settlement at Sydney Cove by Captain Arthur Phillip on 26 January 1788. This date later became Australia's national day, Australia Day. These land masses included the current islands of New Zealand, which was administered as part of New South Wales. Van Diemen's Land, now known as Tasmania, was settled in 1803. The first European Australians came from United Kingdom and Ireland. The southeast of Australia was the first region to be settled by European Australians in 1788. Other British settlements followed, at various points around the continent, most of them unsuccessful. In 1824,"
"all of them from Europe, in the period 1947 to 1970. Important events in Western Australia included the following: History of Western Australia The human history of Western Australia commenced between 40,000 and 60,000 years ago with the arrival of Indigenous Australians on the northwest coast. The first inhabitants expanded the range of their settlement to the east and south of the continent. The first recorded European contact was in 1616, when Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog landed on the west coast. Although many expeditions visited the coast during the next 200 years, there was no lasting attempt at establishment of"
"History of Western Australia The human history of Western Australia commenced between 40,000 and 60,000 years ago with the arrival of Indigenous Australians on the northwest coast. The first inhabitants expanded the range of their settlement to the east and south of the continent. The first recorded European contact was in 1616, when Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog landed on the west coast. Although many expeditions visited the coast during the next 200 years, there was no lasting attempt at establishment of a permanent settlement until December 1826 when an expedition on behalf of the New South Wales colonial government, led"
"the postulated continent of Terra Australis. He first reached New Zealand, and then sailed further westwards to sight the south-eastern corner of the Australian continent on 20 April 1770. In doing so, he was to be the first documented European expedition to reach the eastern coastline. He continued sailing northwards along the east coast, charting and naming many features along the way. He identified Botany Bay as a good harbour and one potentially suitable for a settlement, and where he made his first landfall on 29 April. Continuing up the coastline, the ""Endeavour"" was to later run aground on shoals"
"the oldest-known written artefact from Australia's European history, should be acquired for an Australian museum, but the Dutch authorities have made it clear that the plate is not for sale. In 1966 and 1985 Hartog was depicted on Australian postage stamps, both depicting his ship. In 2016 the Perth Mint issued a silver coin to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Hartog's Australian landfall. The island in Shark Bay, Western Australia, where he made landfall was named Dirk Hartog Island. In Amsterdam, Canberra and fourteen other Australian towns, streets have been named in his honour. Dirk Hartog Dirk Hartog (; baptized"
"1616. This object, now known as the Hartog Plate, measuring 36.5 cm in diameter, is the oldest known written artifact from Australia's European history. It lay unmolested ""in situ"" for a further eighty years, until it was re-discovered half-buried (the post had rotted away) by a Dutch expedition of three ships under the command of the Flemish captain Willem de Vlamingh in 1697. De Vlamingh had earlier explored Rottnest Island and the Swan River (later to be the site of the city of Perth), and had been making his way up the western coast of Australia. He replaced the Hartog"