Discovery

Willem Jansz

On November 18, 1605, he departed from the port. When he saw land at the end of February 1606 he was located off the coast of Australia, in the Cape York Peninsula, which he followed the coast to Cape Keerweer. He brought some 320 kilometers from the continent map, thinking it was the southern reaches of New Guinea. He named the land he                                             had discovered New Zealand, but this name is not widely adopted, Abel Tasman used the name in 1642 for another New Zealand. In June, he returned to Bantam, with rough weather, he pulled the same route.

Jan Carstensz

Jan Carstensz departed from a port in Ambon with two ships, the Pera and Arnhem. He visited a number of islands, and continued his journey to the south coast of New Guinea. During a visit to the coast several men were slain. The command on the Arnhem was taken over by Van Colster. Carstensz succeeded in following the coast of New Guinea not to find the Torres Strait between New Guinea and Australia and so continued his journey along the west coast of Cape York Peninsula. He passed Cape Keerweer (the farthest point from the previous discovery of Willem Jansz). Two days later the ships were separated. Carstensz followed the coast, and returned via New Guinea and the Aru Islands to the port of Ambon back.

Edward John Eyre

When Eyre was 17 years old, he went to Australia, where he was sheep farmer. In 1837-1838 and 1838-1839 he drove twice a flock of sheep to Adelaide in South Australia, which he made ​​good profit, while searching for new, faster routes between Canberra and Adelaide.

Eyres first real discovery was in 1839. John Baxter, he was sent to find. Cattle for a suitable (not too dry) route from Adelaide to Port Lincoln They set up their base camp at the end of Spencer Gulf, but westward found only salt marshes. He moved north to Mount Arden and Mount Eyre. Later that year he made ​​a second attempt, this time from Port Lincoln. He followed the coast north-westward to Streaky Bay, then crossed the arid region east across to Mount Arden and found further north Torre Lubricate before returning to Adelaide.

Matthew Flinders

He carried on board the ship HMS Reliance to Australia, where he distinguished himself as a superb navigator and cartographer. In 1795 he went he explored the area of Sydney in an open boat, the Tom Thumb and in 1798 in omrondde aboard the Norfolk Tasmania, which was proven to be an island. The strait between the Australian mainland and Tasmania was named after George Bass Bass Strait, the ship's doctor who was a good friend of Flinders. The largest island in the previously discovered by Tobias Furneaux Furneauxeilanden was named in honor of Flinders.

Abel Tasman

Abel Tasman was a Dutch explorer in the service of the Dutch East India Company ie VOC. He is best known for his travels between 1642 and 1644, set up by Antonie van Diemen. During this trip he discovered Tasmania, New Zealand and Tonga. Only on the last island, the crew was friendly welcomed.

Tasman had to examine the task of the country when known as New Holland (now Australia), the west coast was discovered by Dutch, to determine whether the country was part of the alleged Terra Australis, a southern continent, should exist to keep the earth. balanced The VOC hoped that this trip opened by this unknown continent for trade and could be. Then exploited.