The indigenous people (aboriginals) had been living in what we now call Australia for about 40,00 years before Cook or Mendonca and had been trading with people from Malaya since about 1300.
Would have expected better of the liberal-leftie Saddam Hussian loving Guardian.
"But evidence has emerged to suggest that neither the English nor Dutch were the first Europeans to reach the continent during the great era of epic sea adventure and global circumnavigation"
[cite]Posted By: lucy lou[/cite]but if the aboriginals were always there,they didnt discover it.
They walked over from Asia when there was still a land bridge. Whoever did discover it it wasn't Cook or Mendonca just as Ceasar didn't discover Britain in 55bc
[quote][cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite][quote][cite]Posted By: lucy lou[/cite]but if the aboriginals were always there,they didnt discover it.[/quote]
They walked over from Asia when there was still a land bridge. Whoever did discover it it wasn't Cook or Mendonca just as Ceasar didn't discover Britain in 55bc[/quote]
The more recent theory is that they landed in Australia having rafted down from the Polynesian Islands.
New Zealand was settled the same way ca year 1200.
[cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]They walked over from Asia when there was still a land bridge.
that cannot have happened! If there was a "land bridge" in the time of men then there is Australia would not have its unique flora and fauna. Australia must have been an island for hundreds of millions of years.
[cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]They walked over from Asia when there was still a land bridge.
that cannot have happened! If there was a "land bridge" in the time of men then there is Australia would not have its unique flora and fauna. Australia must have been an island for hundreds of millions of years.
There was a time when all the continents were all one big land mass - Gonwandaland or something but you are most likely right unless God created it that way on the 5th day.
The last time the continents were all one land mass is called Pangaea - plate tectonics split it into Gondwana and Laurentia, or I think back into Gondwana and Laurentia more or less as they had been before forming Pangaea. Gondwana was more or less today's southern hemisphere and Laurentia the northern hemisphere.
I read a great book about it all by Richard Fortey, called The Earth.
There was a time when all the continents were all one big land mass - Gonwandaland or something but you are most likely right unless God created it that way on the 5th day.
This is the proven theory of Alfred Wegener, who first conceived the theory of plate tectonics. Essentially he noticed that there was evidence of plant and mammal fossils from opposite sides of the Atlantic, when those plants/mammals were either extinct or not indigenous to one or either continent. The orthodox theory of the time explained this by claiming that land bridges, now sunken/eroded, had once connected far-flung continents, his theory was that they were once connected but had shifted as a result of the plates shifting. Wegener called the original mass Pangaea - from the Greek for "all the Earth".
Interesting. Saw a local estate agent named Mendonca on the box here the other day advertising his services. He pronounced his name as MendonSa. He even looked a bit like sir Clive so may be related. I wonder if we have been pronouncing his name wrongly for all these years!
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The indigenous people (aboriginals) had been living in what we now call Australia for about 40,00 years before Cook or Mendonca and had been trading with people from Malaya since about 1300.
Would have expected better of the liberal-leftie Saddam Hussian loving Guardian.
They walked over from Asia when there was still a land bridge. Whoever did discover it it wasn't Cook or Mendonca just as Ceasar didn't discover Britain in 55bc
Exactly - it is Australia we are talking about.
LOL
They walked over from Asia when there was still a land bridge. Whoever did discover it it wasn't Cook or Mendonca just as Ceasar didn't discover Britain in 55bc[/quote]
The more recent theory is that they landed in Australia having rafted down from the Polynesian Islands.
New Zealand was settled the same way ca year 1200.
There was a time when all the continents were all one big land mass - Gonwandaland or something but you are most likely right unless God created it that way on the 5th day.
Australia was connected to New Guinea until around 40-50,000 years ago, this was around the time that the Aboriginals first settled in Australia.
I read a great book about it all by Richard Fortey, called The Earth.
This is the proven theory of Alfred Wegener, who first conceived the theory of plate tectonics. Essentially he noticed that there was evidence of plant and mammal fossils from opposite sides of the Atlantic, when those plants/mammals were either extinct or not indigenous to one or either continent. The orthodox theory of the time explained this by claiming that land bridges, now sunken/eroded, had once connected far-flung continents, his theory was that they were once connected but had shifted as a result of the plates shifting. Wegener called the original mass Pangaea - from the Greek for "all the Earth".
BFR have you ever read Carl Sagan's the demon haunted world. Great debunking of mythical psedo-science and aliens/UFOs etc.
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He pronounced his name as MendonSa. He even looked a bit like sir Clive so may be related.
I wonder if we have been pronouncing his name wrongly for all these years!