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From: "Derek & Di Reid" <>
Subject: Re: Happy Birthday Australia
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 07:12:46 +1100


> In message <>
> alan mansfield <> wrote:
>
> > Graeme
>
> > DAMPIER was here before Van Dieman and I believe that the Portugese were
> > here before that.You have to remember that the French were also sailing
> > around our coast . Lorraine Dandenong
> >
> I had an idea that the Dutch were the first Europeans to identify
Australia
> as a new land, didn`t the French arrive after Cook?
> --
> Graeme Wall
>
La Parouse <spelling> was the Frenchman and where the Sydney suburb got its
name from, and wasn't Australia also called Terra Australis at one stage
Di
Welshmans Ree

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