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Thursday 19 August 2010

First Sighting Of Australia.

But it is finally here, in 1606, we have our first authenticated European sighting of the Great Southern Land. Janszoon and his crew had inadvertently sailed south and were following the west coast of the Australia’s York Peninsular.

More information here: http://scribblemesomething.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/byte-19-the-great-southern-land-bites-back-discovery-1606/#comment-26

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