what came first, America or Australia?

Answer 1

Australia was settled by humans thousands of years before America.

Answer 2

Australia

Answer 3

As a distinct and independent political entity, America predates Australia by about 150 years. Australia only became a separate nation from the UK about a hundred or so years ago.

Answer 4

Australia was first settled by humans 40 to 60 thousand years ago, at least ten thousand years before anyone reached America. The ancestors of the Australian aborigines had to cross the sea out of sight of land to get here. After the settlement of North and South America by Europeans, the Dutch spice traders discovered the west coast of Australia in the 1600s. They also found Tasmania, then called Van Diemen's Land.

In 1770 Cook landed at Tahiti to observe the transit of Venus across the sun, then mapped New Zealand and sailed west to the s-e coast of Australia, he then mapped the east coast. He also found Norfolk Island, which had tall pine trees that looked good for ship masts.

After the American War of Independence, the British had nowhere to send their convicts. In 1787 they sent a fleet of ships carrying supplies and convicts to Botany Bay, which is just south of Sydney. The idea was to control the Norfolk Island mast supply, reduce the number of convicts in British prisons and to have a strategic base in the south Pacific. Another part of the idea was that since most of the convicts were minor offenders, on release they could set up as farmers and small businessmen in the new area. This is what happened.

The fleet arrived in January 1788. They selected Port Jackson instead of Botany Bay as the base and set up a secondary colony at Norfolk Island. Unfortunately it turned out that Norfolk Island pines are no good for ship masts.

Answer 5

America was settled during the 1500's.
Australia was explored in the 1700's.
It was claimed by the British in 1770. It was settled as a art of the colony of New South Wales on 26th January, 1788.

In the 1800's, five other self-governing colonies developed.

United States as a country, was founded in 1776.
Australia as a country wasn't founded until January 1, 1901.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States

Answer 6

If you are speaking geologically, America has existed as a separate landmass for a longer period, although it looked quite a bit different than it does now. If you mean as an independent nation, the US predated Australia, which continued as a British colony until just 100 years ago.

Answer 7

By name America

Answer 8

According to the natives or the interlopers? By the interlopers I'm pretty sure it was America. But I think the indeginous people of Austalia were one of the first races to colonise a particular landmass

Answer 9

Europeans started to move to America around 1750 then about 150 years later when civil war started, Europeans started to move to Australia. Around (1790)

If you are talking about native people or land, the answer is different.

Answer 10

Think it was about the same time as Australia was used as a penal colony for sending scots over there.