List of European explorers of Australia
The list of European explorers of Australia includes the people who have contributed to the exploration of the coast and inland in the history of Australia . The Dutch Dirk Hartog (1580–1621) was the first European to set foot on the west coast in 1616. The major explorations of the country were completed in the 1870s.
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The discovery of Australia by Europeans took place gradually since the early 17th century. The first important discoveries go almost exclusively on Dutch sailor back, which on behalf of the Dutch East India Company (Engl. Dutch East Inda Company ) of Indonesia from time to much of a Dutch colony, to the southeast lying areas of the Indian Ocean and the Explored the Pacific . Between 1606 and 1697 , several Dutch expeditions mapped large parts of Australia's south and west coast. The original name New Holland goes back to these first Dutch discoveries . Predominantly interested in the spice trade, at that time the Dutch did not have any extensive interest in colonizing Australia.
Early marine explorers along the coast of Australia:
- 1606 - Willem Jansz (1570–1630) (ship: Duyfken ), first known sighting of Australia by Europeans
- 1606 - Luiz Váez de Torres (approx. 1565–1610), first sailor of the Torres Street
- 1616 - Dirk Hartog (1580–1621), exploring the west coast near Shark Bay
- 1619 - Frederick de Houtman (1571–1627), west coast near present-day Perth
- 1623 - Jan Carstensz (ships: Pera and Arnhem ), Gulf of Carpentaria
- 1627 - François Thijssen (ship: Gulden Zeepaerdt ), southwest coast between Cape Leeuwin and Ceduna
- 1642 - 44 - Abel Tasman (ships: Heemskerck and Zeehaen ), Vandiemensland (= Tasmania ) and northwest coast
- 1688 and 1699 - William Dampier (1651–1715), North West Coast
- 1696 - 97 - Willem de Vlamingh (ships: Geelvink , Nyptangh , Wezeltje ), west coast, ( Rottnest Island , Dirk Hartog Island )
- 1770 - James Cook (1728–1779), east coast near Sydney ( Botany Bay )
- 1797 - 99 - George Bass (1771-1803), Bass Strait and south coasts
- 1798 - 99 - Matthew Flinders (1774-1814), Bass Strait
- 1801 - 03 - Matthew Flinders (1774 to 1814), circumnavigation of the continent
- 1817 - 22 - Phillip Parker King (1791-1856), multiple circumnavigation of the continent.
Inland
- Gregory Blaxland (1778–1853), Expedition over the Blue Mountains , 1813
- Edward John Eyre (1815–1901), South Coast of Australia, 1839–1841
- Ernest Favenc (1845–1908), Northern Australia 1878, Northwest Australia 1880s
- Alexander Forrest (1849–1901), Explorations of Western Australia, 1869–1874
- John Forrest (1847–1918), Explorations of Western Australia, 1869–1874
- Augustus Gregory (1819–1905), Inland Exploration 1846–1858
- Hamilton Hume (1797–1873), Expedition from New South Wales to Victoria , 1824
- William Hovell (1786–1875), Expedition from New South Wales to Victoria, 1824
- Edmund Kennedy (1818–1848), Exploration of the Queensland and New South Wales hinterland , 1847–1848
- Ludwig Leichhardt (1813–1848), Explorations of the Interior, 1842–1848
- Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (1792–1855), Exploration of the South, 1831–1845
- Robert O'Hara Burke (1821–1861), South-North Traverse, 1860–1861
- John Oxley (1785-1828), Southeast Australia 1818-1824
- Moritz Richard Schomburgk (1811–1891), botanical exploration of South Australia, 1865–1891
- Paul Edmund de Strzelecki (1797–1873), Exploration of the Inland, 1840–1842
- John McDouall Stuart (1815–1866), South-North Traverse, 1860–1862
- Charles Sturt (1795–1869), Expeditions to Central Australia, 1827–1845
- Peter Warburton (1813–1889), Traversing the Great Sand Desert , 1872
- William John Wills (1834–1861), attempted north-south crossing, 1861
Individual evidence
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics Official Yearbook of the Commonwealth of Australia 1985
See also: List of Explorers