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Australia

Akhenaten

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Australia is a large country occupying a continent of the same name, situated between the South Pacific, Southern and Indian Oceans.

To the North lie New Guinea, Timor and Indonesia; to the East is New Zealand. Far to the South and West are Antarctica and Africa respectively.

The flora and fauna include many unique and fascinating examples of a land long separated from Gondwana.

Human settlement began approximately forty thousand (40 000) years ago with the arrival of the Aborigines, now generally and respectfully known as the Koori.

British settlement began in the form of a penal colony in 1788, following the discovery and mapping of the East coast in 1770 by Captain James Cook, RN.

Ausralia has a long and varied history, which ranges from the dreamtime tales of the Koori to the development of cutting-edge technology, cast on the rich tapestry of an ancient landscape.

It is a land of legend.



Please discuss.
 
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Australia was discovered again* by Dutchman Willem Janszoon in 1606 on the Duyfken.
The then local inhabitants didn't produce anything of value for the Dutch, so they left again.
Abel Tasman also didn't find anything of value.
In that time, Australia was known as Nieuw-Holland (New Holland). Most ships stranded on the sandy western coast on their way to Indonesia.
At the end of the 18th century, the British (under James Cook) 'discovered' Australia yet again and started colonization.

*Again, after the Koori.
 
Akhenaten, I love you, and your big (probably) hydrocephalic head. Your wife is lovely (probably) and I love the opera devoted to you by P. Glass.
 
Shrike said:
Australia was discovered again* by Dutchman Willem Janszoon in 1606 on the Duyfken.
The then local inhabitants didn't produce anything of value for the Dutch, so they left again.
Abel Tasman also didn't find anything of value.
In that time, Australia was known as Nieuw-Holland (New Holland). Most ships stranded on the sandy western coast on their way to Indonesia.
At the end of the 18th century, the British (under James Cook) 'discovered' Australia yet again and started colonization.

*Again, after the Koori.
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The West coast has a long history, much of it the story of great fortitude displayed by Dutch seamen. Tales of triumph and tragedy abound.


Abel Tasman gives his name to our southernmost state, Tasmania, home of the Tasmanian Devil. Tasman origiinally named the island Van Diemen's Land, in honour of Anthony van Diemen, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies.


We owe many thanks to those brave Dutchmen.
 
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BTW I love Michigan. You may laugh... you may say, "Horrible unemployment! ...all the problems associated with it! etc..."

But the entire five years I've been here, I have not met one single Australian, and that makes me feel safe.

Crime Island is what I call Australia.
 
Speaking of the Dutch I might as well point out that they were also the first to look around what is now South Australia, originally calling the area "Pieter Nuyts Land".
 
Magnifico2.0 said:
BTW I love Michigan. You may laugh... you may say, "Horrible unemployment! ...all the problems associated with it! etc..."

But the entire five years I've been here, I have not met one single Australian, and that makes me feel safe.

Crime Island is what I call Australia.
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Detroit, Michigan is 6531 kilometres (3919 miles) from Sydney, New South Wales.
 
Australia is a very hard place to describe to others. It is a tired land, yet at the same exude an almost primal energy that's infectious.

It is a land that will embrace you and nuture you. While at the same time reminding you it can beak your heart in an instant. The recent events in Victoria and Queensland are testiment to this.

Yet even amid such heartbreak Australians showed a unity of purpose to get behind the survivers, remind them they are not alone, helping to dust them off and get their lives restarted for another round of existence in a Sunburnt Country
 
Wildy said:
Speaking of the Dutch I might as well point out that they were also the first to look around what is now South Australia, originally calling the area "Pieter Nuyts Land".
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I'm afraid I have to confess little knowledge of South Australian history, other than Colonel Light's contributions, and some bits and pieces about the Coorong,

I thank you for your generous offer to flesh out what I am sure will be a rollicking tale of adventure in a Wild enviornment, particularly The Heroic Journey of John McDouall Stuart.
 
Bands of marauding platypusses, platypii, platypussies, plat... koalas roam the Australian countryside killing all who dare to cross their path.
 
I seem to have started something here.

I thank you all for doing exactly what I had hoped for. Billions and billions of topics.

I shall STFU for a bit, and see where we go.



Cheers Cobbers,

Dave
 
Australia, known as Straya (pronounced stray-ya) in the native tongue is a country, a continent and an island, all in one. Beat that.

Oh yeah, more marsupials than anywhere else. Even our animals are to lazy to gestate properly....
 
proudnonbbeliever said:
Australia, known as Straya (pronounced stray-ya) in the native tongue is a country, a continent and an island, all in one. Beat that.

Oh yeah, more marsupials than anywhere else. Even our animals are to lazy to gestate properly....
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LOL - yes and a country that can not even pronounce the name of the capital city properly, and eats its national emblem :eek:
 
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