EARLY EXPLORATION
CAPTAIN JAMES COOK
CAPTAIN ARTHUR PHILLIP
AUSTRALIA
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
100
The first white man to land in Australia was from ....
Holland
100
In what year did Captain James Cook arrive in Australia
1770
100
What was the date that Captain Arthur Phillip raised the British Flag in Australia.
26th January 1788
100
What is celebrated on the 26th January
Australia Day
100
Highest Mountain in Australia
Mt Kosziusko
200
What year did Dirk Hartog arrive in Australia? Where did he land?
1616 - Shark Bay, Western Australia
200
What was the name of his ship?
The Endeavour
200
What was the group of ships known as?
The First Fleet
200
Who are believed to be the oldest civilisation in the world?
The Aborigines
200
Largest coral reef in the world
Great Barrier Reef
300
In what year did Abel Tasman discover Tasmania? What did he call it?
1642 - Van Dieman's Land
300
Where did he land?
Botany Bay
300
Why were there so many convicts on the ships?
The prisons in England were over-crowded.
300
What was the name given to the first settlement in Australia?
Sydney Cove
300
In what year did Van Dieman's land change to Tasmania?
1855
400
An English pirate landed on the north-west of Western Australia. What was his name and what was the year?
William Dampier - 1688
400
What did he name the land he claimed for great Britain?
New South Wales
400
Where did Captain Arthur Phillip first land, and then, where did he go?
Landed at Botany Bay but moved on to Port Jackson
400
Who named Australia?
Matthew Flinders
400
What islands are named after Willian Dampier?
Buccaneer Islands
500
In 1606, a Dutch explorer and a Spanish explorer sighted part of Australia. What were their names?
Willem Janszoon and Luis Vaez de Torres
500
Name the botantist who travelled with him.
Sir Joseph Banks
500
Name the two starits in Australia
Bass and Torres Strait
500
'Terra Australis Incognito' means
Unknown Southern Land
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