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Maritime Museum
Maritime Museum
Maritime Museum
Maritime Museum
Maritime Museum
Maritime Museum
Maritime Museum
Maritime Museum
Maritime Museum
Maritime Museum
Maritime Museum
Maritime Museum
Maritime Museum
Maritime Museum
Maritime Museum
Maritime Museum
Maritime Museum
Maritime Museum
Maritime Museum
Maritime Museum
Maritime Museum
Maritime Museum
Maritime Museum
Maritime Museum
Maritime Museum
Phone:
+55 13 3261-4808

Hours:
Sunday9am - 6pm
Monday9am - 6pm
Tuesday9am - 6pm
Wednesday9am - 6pm
Thursday9am - 6pm
Friday9am - 6pm
Saturday9am - 6pm


The maritime European exploration of Australia consisted of several waves of white European seafarers that sailed the edges of the Australian continent. Dutch navigators were the first Europeans known to have explored and mapped the Australian coastline. The first documented encounter was that of Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon, in 1606. Dutch seafarers also visited the west and north coasts of the continent, as did French explorers. The most famous expedition was that of Royal Navy Lieutenant James Cook 164 years after Janszoon's sighting. After an assignment to make observations of the 1769 Venus Transit, Cook followed Admiralty instructions to explore the south Pacific for the reported Terra Australis and on 19 April 1770 sighted the south-eastern coast of Australia and became the first recorded European to explore the eastern coastline. Explorers by land and sea continued to survey the continent for some years after settlement.
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