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-A Brittish explorer named James Cook claimed Australia and New Zealand for Great Britian and created an intrest for the rest of the reigon.
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-Brittish settlement of Australia began
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-Colonists discovered gold and the population reached new hights
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Ayers rock is discovered or first sighted
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- The U.S, France, Great Britian, and Japan all controlled the Pacific Islands
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Australia and New Zealand gained their independence
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brittish colonists took aboriginal children away from their families and forced them to live in istitutions or with white families
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most of the pacific islands won independence peacefully in the second half of the 1900's
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The nonviolent Mau movement worked for independence, which Samoa won in 1962
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growing numbers of asians and pacific islanders have moved to australia and new zealand
