The History Of Australia 🇦🇺 :
🦘 Australia became inhabitant over 40,000 years ago by the Indigenous Australians or Aborigines, who are believed to have come to Australia by land bridges and short sea crossing from Southeast Asia. These people were hunters and gathers. During that time, oral history was passed down through the generations in the form of tales, myths, and songs. Over the centuries that followed, multiple colloquial language, culture and lifestyle survived in different regions of the continent.
Map of The Commonwealth of Australia.
🦘 In the 17th Century, the European explorers began to frequent the west and north coast of Australia.
William Janszoon, a Dutch navigator sighted the Cape York Peninsula in 1606, but made no attempt at settling there. In the mid 18th century. The British had an overcrowded prison population and required a new penal colony.
In 1770, Captain James Cook sailed along the east coast of Australia and claimed it for Britain, naming it New South Wales.
In 1788, the first fleet arrived carrying 750 convicts. This was the first penal colony that is now the Sydney.
🦘 The second penal colony was called Port Arthur, which is a tourist attraction now. The number of colonies grew over the following decades. Australia grew into a productive farming land and a major wool producer. The mid 19th century witnessed a gold rush in Victoria and New South Wales.
James Cook Landed on Australia 🇦🇺.
🦘 In January 1st 1901, the six colonies were federated to form one nation, and the commonwealth of Australia was born. The new constitution aimed at creating a new social, cultural,and economical atmosphere, leaving the pitfalls of the old times behind. Over the following decades, Australia continued to expand and after World War II, there was a mass immigration from Europe. At one point in time, Melbourne became the largest Greek populated city outside of the Athens. the immigration has come from Asian neighbours.
🦘 Now, Australia is flourishing in terms of its national media and international business reputation. Both as a nation and as a continent.
🦘 And Australia is a continent and a country. It is known as the land down under because it is below the Equator...
" Don't worry about the world ending today. It's already tomorrow in Australia "
— Charles M. Schulz.
