Tag: Van Diemen's Land

03/04/2023

Australia, did not exist prior to or at British settlement in 1778

Australia, did not exist prior to or at settlement of New South Wales as a British colony in 1778. A continent with three separate land masses did exist, however, this continent had no universal name or government or rule of law and had never been mapped so no one knew what it looked like. That is until Matthew Flinders circumnavigated and chartered the entire coastline […]