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Aristotle, Ptolemy and Macrobius believed that there was far too much land
in the Northern hemisphere and that there must be
some undiscovered continent balancing the globe somewhere
in the south okay, so the logic
was a little flawed but during the age of discovery
the search was on for 'terra australis incognito'
fast forward few centuries to the East Indies
three Dutch sailors landed in Australia accidentally
in the sixteen hundreds. The mythical southern continent
had just been found
Australia was the last of the new world to be discovered
cause let's be honest nobody cares about Antarctica
Australia was of course already inhabited
indigenous Australians also known as Aborigines had a population
of between three hundred and seven hundred thousand by modern estimates
Early contacts
with these tribes
were as often peaceful
as they were violent
it is thought that