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The arrival of Dirk Hartog in 1616 marked the first European landing on Australia’s west coast.
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The Makassans were from the southwest corner of Sulawesi and decided to go the coast of northern Australia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to collect sea cucumber, a marine invertebrate prized for its culinary and medicinal values in Chinese markets.
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The Spice trade refers to the trade between historic civilizations in Asia, Northeast Africa and Europe. Spices such as cinnamon, cassia, cardamom, ginger, and turmeric were known, and used for commerce, in the Eastern World. These spices found their way into the Middle East before the beginning of the Christian Era, where the true sources of these spices was withheld by the traders, and associated with fantastic tales.
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The arrival of Dirk Hartog in 1616 marked the first European landing on Australia’s west coast.
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He was the first known European explorer to reach the islands of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) and New Zealand, and to sight the Fiji islands.
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Dampier named the place Shark Bay in honour of these magnificent creatures. Why did Dampier catch so many sharks? Because so many species live here!
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Nanna's grand parents came from Ireland like my Pop but I'm only a bit I rish from Nanna's side unlike my Pops side that gave me a quarter of Irish in my blood.
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My Pop arrived in Australilia in 1950 and met my Nanna in 1951. They later got married in 1952.My Pop came from Ireland and ever since I've been a quarter Irish just like all of my sisters.
