Show explorers too ready reaal to pa pass ss up australia the continent of australia was not discovered until just before the american revolution louis do torres balling from peru in thought the northern queensland coast was another of those island groups the Marque sas soloman new hebrides through which he be had passed the dutch proceeding from java several times met the west and north of australla australia but reported a barren wild country inhabited by barbarous cruel black people abel tasman in 1013 1042 found van clemens land tasmania and left in disgust in william dampier Dam an english buccaneer landed in west australia alln and the following year mapped the coast in lila ills report to king william ha be described the land ns as sandy and waterless with stunted trees inhabited by the people in the world A hundred years later the english scientific expedition under captain cook revealed the presence of wide belts of fertile land and his landing at botany bay sydney april 28 1770 resulted in another continent for the british crown |