About Australia

Terra Austrális

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Discovering

Before 1770, the fertile East Coast had not yet been found by Capitan James Cook of the British Royal Navy who, at the command of the “Endeavour”, moored at the Botany Bay, South of Sidney. 

After leaving the Botany Bay, Capitan Cook went up North and mapped the coast line, discovering the East Coast, fertile and just perfect to be colonized. He then named the place New South Wales and took possession of it in the name of the British Crown, under the reign of King George III.