Search results for "European exploration of Australia" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Tasman is best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service ... The Enlightenment had placed humanity at the center of the world, ...12 KB (1,843 words) - 04:46, 14 June 2023
- to as the "Mighty Murray," is Australia's largest river. It ... The Murray is one of the major river systems in one of the driest ...26 KB (4,062 words) - 19:01, 10 November 2022
- The Territory of Christmas Island is a small territory of Australia ... It maintains about 1,500 residents who live in a number of "settlement ...27 KB (3,857 words) - 21:39, 10 December 2023
- A continent is one of several large landmasses on Earth. Seven areas ... (capitalized)—used predominantly in the European isles, such as the British ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 19:07, 19 May 2020
- 1806) was a Scottish physician and explorer of the African continent who explorations ... His career was set in the context of the early days of the European ...19 KB (3,147 words) - 18:22, 10 November 2022
- Phillip was appointed Governor of New South Wales, the first ... or emancipated due to merit, not privilege of birth. The egalitarian spirit ...18 KB (2,828 words) - 17:36, 16 August 2023
- European exploration of Africa began with the Greeks and Romans, who ... The story of the European exploration of Africa comprises many incidents ...29 KB (4,463 words) - 06:53, 12 September 2023
- Numbat is the common name for members of the marsupial species Myrmecobius ... their diurnal habits, also add to the beauty of nature for humans and the numbat ...16 KB (2,462 words) - 20:23, 11 February 2023
- explorer Ferdinand Magellan) is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions ... economic growth and emergence as centers of technological innovation, and ...29 KB (4,365 words) - 06:11, 18 November 2022
- quot;many islands") is a large grouping of over one thousand islands scattered ... Island. A Polynesian island group outside of this great triangle is Tuvalu ...17 KB (2,443 words) - 08:46, 24 November 2022
- , Okeanos (Oceanus) in Greek) is a major body of saline water, and ... The world ocean, an integral part of global climate, is constantly ...25 KB (3,710 words) - 21:09, 17 April 2023
- Brisbane is the third largest city in Australia and the most populous ... Australia as a whole, and Brisbane included, has developed a robust ...24 KB (3,443 words) - 02:23, 22 November 2023
- Ethnobotany is the systematic study of the relationships between plants ... that humans perceive and classify different kinds of plants ...15 KB (2,113 words) - 04:35, 22 March 2024
- a colonial global empire outside of continental Europe. Their skills ... global commerce during the second half of the seventeenth century. A ...20 KB (2,997 words) - 18:52, 24 August 2020
- Kakadu National Park is in the Northern Territory of Australia, 171 ... km (62 mi) from east to west. It is the size of Israel, about one-third the ...37 KB (5,617 words) - 02:27, 19 December 2022
- Canberra is the federal capital of the Commonwealth of Australia located ... movement and incorporates significant areas of natural vegetation that have ...37 KB (5,453 words) - 19:15, 25 November 2023
- as Shell, is a multinational oil company of Dutch and British origins. ... The company's main business is the exploration for and the production ...44 KB (6,285 words) - 21:48, 16 April 2023
- PNG|400px|right|thumb|Hypothesized map of human migration based on Mitochondrial ... prehistory and human history. The movement of populations in modern times ...28 KB (4,050 words) - 16:22, 23 December 2022
- as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British army ... Born in Woolwich, the son of Major-General Henry William Gordon (1786 ...21 KB (3,345 words) - 19:07, 4 December 2023
- The Portuguese Empire was the earliest and longest lived of the modern ... As skilled Portuguese sailors explored the coasts and islands of East ...34 KB (5,157 words) - 00:26, 12 April 2023
