Who discovered Australia and when?

Question

when people from England and Asia started to go in Australia.

Answer 1

Captain James Cook FRS RN (October 27, 1728 (O.S.) – February 14, 1779) was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer. He made three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, accurately charting many areas and recording several islands and coastlines on European maps for the first time. His most notable accomplishments were the British discovery and claiming of the east coast of Australia; the European discovery of the Hawaiian Islands; and the first recorded circumnavigation and mapping of Newfoundland and New Zealand. Cook died in Hawaii in a fracas with Hawaiians during his third exploratory voyage in the Pacific in 1779.

Answer 2

Captain James Cook FRS RN (October 27, 1728 (O.S.) – February 14, 1779) was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer. He made three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, accurately charting many areas and recording several islands and coastlines on European maps for the first time. His most notable accomplishments were the British discovery and claiming of the east coast of Australia; the European discovery of the Hawaiian Islands; and the first recorded circumnavigation and mapping of Newfoundland and New Zealand. Cook died in Hawaii in a fracas with Hawaiians during his third exploratory voyage in the Pacific in 1779.

Answer 3

Depends on what you mean by "discover".

The first people to arrive to Australia were the aborigins.

In 1606, Luis Vaez de Torres, a portuguese sailor on service for the Crown of Spain, who was commanding a ship in an exploration expediotion leaded by Spaniard sailor Pedro Fernández de Quirós, sailed acrossed the strait that separates New Guinea from Asutralia, (Torres Strait) and "discovered" both New Guinea and Australia (the northern bit). That expedition was looking for the "Terra Australis" a big mass of land in the southern pacific that most geographers of the time thought it should exist.

In 1642, Abel Tasman, a Dutch explorer working for the Dutch East India Company, "discovered" Tasmania, calling it Van Diemen's Land. Two years later, he sailed across the southern coast of New Guinea up to Torres Strait, then back along the northwestern coast of Australia, and then home, to Batavia (Yakarta).

A century later, Captain James Cook, a british sailor, reached the eatern coast of Australia, "discovering" Australia from Queensland to Tasmania. I8 years later, in 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip disembarked near Botany Bay with the intention of building a Fort and a colonial penitentiary. That was the beggining of modern day Australia.

Answer 4

The Aborigines got here to Australia from south Asia 1000's of years in the past. They have been remoted from something of the international until eventually the Europeans "found" them in the 18th century. that they had an exceedingly wealthy lifestyle with a deep religious ideals. The touch with the English introduced approximately the disruption of their lifestyle and society. Australian Aborigines are the optimum indigenous people of Australia. Their ancestors probable arrived in Australia over 50,000 years in the past, although this discern continues to be in dispute. some historians have faith people have lived in Australia for as much as one hundred, 000 years.

Answer 5

the indigenous Australians discovered it about 40,000 years ago. there seems to be some evidence that fishermen from south east Asia and china regularly fished off the north coast long before the Europeans got there and in the 15th century the Chinese admiral Zheng He probably visited there. ther first recorded European was the Abel Tasman in 1642, who was Dutch. captain cook came much later.

Answer 6

No one dicovered Australia, It was always there.

Answer 7

captain cook

(Cook was his name, he wasn't the captain and the cook of the ship)