No. Indigenous Australians (Aborigines) lived on the Australian continent for thousands of years before Europeans came. The Macassan traders from Asia were also known to marry aboriginal women.
Edmund Lockyer was the one who led an expedition to formally claim Western Australia for Britain in 1826 (it had been claimed as British possession in 1791, by George Vancouver). He established a...
The first known people in Australia were the indigenous people, referred to as Aborigines. DNA testing indicates that these people originated from the Indian subcontinent.The western coast of...
It is believed that the Portuguese were the first Europeans to sight the Australian continent, but there are no records within Portugal itself to substantiate the claim. The source for this claim are...