sub_confirmation=1</a> The first map of Australia was charted by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman 130 years before Captain James Cook. It was thought to be lost for nearly 300 years! but after a long ...

A descendent of one of the Aboriginal men he first ... Cook, 29 April 1770 This is the moment, 250 years ago, that two worlds collided. In a hostile encounter, British explorer Captain James ...