Macassan traders

Accounts by:

• Harry Stockdale, adventurer

• Ronald M Berndt & Catherine H Berndt​, anthropologists

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First European footprints

• Willem Janszoon - 1606

• Luís Vaez de Torres - 1606

• Dirk Hartog - 1616

• Jan Carstenszoon - 1623

• Abel Tasman - 1642​​

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William Dampier - 1697

• First encounter and resistance from inhabitants

• Damning testimony

• Capture of Aboriginal

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Captain James Cook - 1770​

• Great Southern Land

• ​Aboriginals resist landing

• Cook takes formal possession

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First meeting - The First Fleet​

Accounts by:

• Captain Arthur Phillip

• ​Captain Watkin Tench

• Arthur Bowes-Smyth, surgeon

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Yadyer, Bullmayne, Dolmoik, Kurrul, Bluitt & Potta​​

• Reportedly the first and only known account of the arrival of Captain Cook, from the perspective of Aboriginals who were present at the landing

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