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Dutch sailors were amongst the first Europeans to migrate to Australia. In 1606 the Duyfken was the first ship to sail part of Australia’s coastline. After the Duyfken reached Australia, many other Dutch explorers soon followed after.
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increasingly amount of Dutch immigrants were drawn over by the gold rushes in victoria from the 1850s.
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1911 there were 186 Netherlands-born people living in Victoria.
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The growth of the Dutch community in Victoria slowly started to increase after the post-war period. In 1947, there was a total of 625 Netherlands-born people recorded living there.
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by 1954 the number had increase further to 15 996 people now living in Australia.
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Within 5 years the community had more than doubled to 36 284 Dutch residents living in Victoria.
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By the 1960s the economic situation in the Netherlands had improved and the number of emigrants began to decrease. Some Dutch dwellers chose to return back to Holland.
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Michael Verdel and his family leave Holland and migrate to Australia.
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Michael Verdel and his family reach Austrlia after being on a ship for just under a month.
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by 1981 the total Netherlands-born population in Victoria had fallen to 30 707.
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According to the 2006 Australian Census, 310,089 persons resident in Australia claimed Dutch ancestry, either alone or in combination with another ancestry. 78,927 persons declared they were born in the Netherlands.
