knobby1 wrote:bigjohnthomas wrote:Do you have castles down there ?
If we have it wouldn't be many...we've only been around for ~246 years or so...wasn't it Captain Cook who originally graced our shores in 1770..?
But I suspect there were earlier raids on our lands well before him...1606 I believe, a Dutch East India Company boat captained by Dutchman Willem Janszoon.
There is also the theory that the Portuguese were the first Europeans to sight Australia in the 1520s, but there's no hard evidence to substantiate this.
Trouble is...when I were a wee lad...the school teachers didn't know any better and said Cook was the first..
Sorry....rambling again..
Lord Knobrot
Well if there are no pictures then it didn't happen
