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BOOK 1. - AUSTRALIAN DISCOVERY BY SEA

PRINCIPAL DATES

1521. Magellan's voyage across the Pacific.

1567. Mendaña's discovery of the Solomon Islands.

1578. Drake's voyage of circumnavigation.

1586. Cavendish's voyage of circumnavigation

1595. Mendaña's failure to rediscover the Solomons.

1606. Quiros at Espiritu Santo.

1606. Torres' voyage from the New Hebrides to the Philippines.

1606. The Dutch in the Gulf of Carpentaria.

1606. First authenticated discovery of any part of Australia.

1616. The Dutch ship Eendracht on the coast of Western Australia.

1642. Tasman's first South Sea voyage.

1642. Discovery of Van Diemen's Land and New Zealand.

1644. Tasman's second voyage, in search of a passage between New Guinea and "the South Land."

1688. Dampier's first voyage to New Holland.

1699. Dampier's voyage to New Holland in the Roebuck.

1739. Bouvet's search for the Austral lands.

1765. Byron's voyage to the Pacific.

1766-8. Wallis's voyage to the Pacific.

1766-9. Carteret's voyage to the Pacific.

1766-9. Bougainville's voyage to the Pacific.

1768-71. Cook's first South Sea voyage; exploration of -New Zealand and discovery of the east coast of Australia.

1771. Voyage of Marion du Fresne to New Zealand.

1772-3. Cook's second voyage; demonstration that Terra Australis Incognita was a myth.

1776-9. Cook's third voyage and death.

1788. Foundation of British settlement in Australia.

1788. Voyage of Lapérouse.

1791. Voyage of Dentrecasteaux.

1798. Bass's whaleboat voyage, and discovery of Bass Strait.

1802. Flinders' discovery of Southern Australia.

1803. Flinders' circumnavigation of Australia.

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