100958 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: William Dampier, Industrial Revolution, Matthew Flinders
9 Aug 2018
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Gondwana super continent: 200 million years ago the continents of south africa, south america, india, australia and. Antarctica were linked to form a super continent, gondwana: humans arrived in australia at least 55,000 years ago, crossing from asia when sea levels were low, cutting off passage through east timor and new guinea. Page 1 of 3: overland exploration from europe to asia from 330 bc by alexander the great, 1264-69 marco polo reached beijing overland from italy. Hebrides and vanatu: luis de torres then sailed west to manila along the southern coast of new guinea . Formation of new holland: at the end of the 16th century, the dutch replaced the portuguese as the dominant. Die(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s land: british hydrographers put together maps of earlier explorers to establish existence of the unknown south land. Cook"s voyage: 1769 british scientific expedition to tahiti to observe the transit of venus under.
