Australia Discovered By Portuguese 250 Years Before British
Score one for old maps. An Australian author named Peter Trickett has discovered a map that pretty well proves Australia was discovered around 1520, which is way before James Cook stumbled upon the place. This was the most interesting quote, I thought: “It was even so accurate that I found I could draw in the modern airport runways, to scale in the right place, without any problem at all,”
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Don’t forget that the Dutch had been exploring Australia since 1606 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Exploration_of_Australia). James Cook was a great explorer, navigator and surveyor. He certainly achieved a lot and made many discoveries during his travels. But he didn’t discover Australia.