HistoryinAustralia

**__HISTORY.__**  Dutch seamen were the one who discovered and put the country on the map most of the places in north, west and south coast in the 1700 century. They thought that the east coast was put on the map some years later by the most known updater the English captain James Cook. He sailed around the whole east cost in 1770, and when he came back to London he told the English government about the county and they decided to take over Australia. They took with them 1000 prisoner and officers from England to Australia and made Australia to a penal colony in 1788. The oldest people are the Aborigines and have lived in Australia for more than 50 000 years. 100 years before the English men came to Australia it was visited by anglers from the islands from north of the country. Even today some of these groups sail over the cost to collect trepang, which is a sea sausage

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