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The climate and farming land are a lot more favourable in the South/East. But in honesty like most people "discovering" land, they just happened to bump into th
by grecy 6y ago
The climate and farming land are a lot more favourable in the South/East. But in honesty like most people "discovering" land, they just happened to bump into the continent where they did and set up shop.
- hvdfhbj 6y agoThe latter part isn't really true in this case, the east coast was the last part of the continent to be discovered by Europeans. The west and north had been explored and mapped centuries earlier by various explorers (Hartog, Tasman, Dampier) but it wasn't until Cook discovered the more agriculture-friendly south-east coast that the idea of colonisation started to seem worthwhile; just eighteen years later we had Sydney.