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Did the Portuguese "discover" Australia in the 1520's?
Title: Did the Portuguese "discover" Australia in the 1520's?
Category: History / World History
Details: Words: 1968 | Pages: 8.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Did the Portuguese "discover" Australia in the 1520's?
Did the Portuguese "discover" Australia in the 1520's?
There is much circumstantial evidence to suggest that a Portuguese discovery of Australia in the 1520's is highly probable. There is much evidence to suggest that it was neither the Dutch nor the British to be the first Europeans to discover Australia, but the Portuguese, around the 1520's. As stated in McIntyre's "Secret Discovery of Australia" it is believed that
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…showed last 75 words of 1968 total…Cook - Obsession and Betrayal in the New World, Accessed at www.theherald.co.uk/bookshelf/archive/20-2-19102-20-11-25.html most recently on 14.04.02: 9:34pm
DAVIDSON, G. et al, The Oxford Companion to Australian History, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998
LONEY, J. K., The Mahogany Ship, Dimboola, Victoria: Loney, 1974
MCINTYRE, K. G., The Secret Discovery of Australia: Portuguese Ventures 200 Years before Captain Cook, Mendindie, South Australia: Souvenir Press, 1977
WOOD, G. A., The Discovery of Australia, Melbourne: Macmillan Company of Australia, 1969
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