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For most, the colonial story of Australia starts off with Captain Cook's discovery of the east shoreline in 1770, but it was some 164 years before his ancient voyage that European mariners started out their relationship with the immensity of the Australian continent. Between 1606 and 1688, while the British possessed their hands full with the Gunpowder Storyline and the English Civil Conflict, it was highly skilled Dutch seafarers who, by design, chance or shipwreck, found out and mapped a lot of the vast, unidentified waters and land masses in the Indian and Southern Oceans. This is the setting that perceives Rob Mundle again on the water with another sweeping and powerful bank account of Australian maritime record. It is the story of 17th-century European mariners - sailors, adventurers and explorers - who became transfixed by the idea of the existence of a Great South Land: "Terra Australis Incognita". Rob goes aboard the very small ship, Duyfken, in 1606 when Dutch navigator and explorer Willem Janszoon and his 20-man team became the first Europeans to find Australia on the shoreline of the Gulf of Carpentaria. In the decades that used, more Dutch mariners, like Hartog, Tasman, and Janszoon (for a second time), found out and mapped a lot of the shoreline of what would become Australia. Yet, extremely, the Dutch made no work to lay promise to it or establish any settlements. This process began with British explorer and ex - pirate William Dampier on the western shoreline in 1688, and by the time Captain Cook found its way to 1770, all that was to be done was chart the east shoreline and claim what the Dutch had discovered.

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