Talk:Australia

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The first European landing/exploration of Australia is limited to: "The Dutch East India Company ship, Duyfken, captained by Willem Janszoon, made the first documented European landing in Australia in 1606".^[1]

This warrants further information. Also, there is no mention of the first European contact with the Indigenous inhabitants.

Thus, something along the lines of the following could follow the above-quoted sentence to provide more information in this regard: 'A Duyfken chart (found in 1933) that shows the whole course of the vessel from Banda on the outward and the homeward voyages indicates the actual landfall on the coast of Australia, and it locates the position of Cape Keerweer where the Duyfken turned back to Banda (after mapping 360 km of the west side of the Cape York peninsula and making contact with indigenous inhabitants)'.^[2] GranZebru (talk) 06:39, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

This is a high level article on Australia. The article is already very long and there is no room for such detail on every early explorer and every historical incident. Detail on early European exploration of the continent can be found in the article European maritime exploration of Australia. Please see wikipedia policy on WP:summary style. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 06:50, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

First landfall and contact is significant (more so than other sentences in the European exploration and colonisation subheading, such as "Luís Vaz de Torres sailed to the north of Australia through Torres Strait, along New Guinea's southern coast" and "On his second voyage of 1644, he mapped the north coast of Australia south of New Guinea"). It is not merely 'detail on every early explorer and every historical incident'.

As I said, this is a high-level article on Australia as a whole and the detail of the Duyfken voyage can be found in the linked articles. If you want, I can expand the sentence to: "In 1606, the Dutch East India Company ship, Duyfken, captained by Willem Janszoon, made the first documented European landing in Australia and encounter with Aboriginal Australians." Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 09:31, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

Your suggested expanded sentence adequately and clearly conveys the information regarding first landfall and contact. Please alter the source text accordingly. Thank you. GranZebru (talk) 01:11, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Hello all

An editor has twice tried to add content on this map to the lead and body of the article. It has been reverted by two editors. I reverted it because I don't think it is important enough to go in the lead, nor in a high level article about Australia. While the Freycinet map is certainly important for history of mapping of Australia, as far as an article on Australia is concerned it is only a footnote at best. Flinders was the first to circumnavigate and map the entire outline of Australia. The Freycinet map was only published first because the French imprisoned Finders for seven years.

Happy to discuss Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 22:21, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

To put it into context, the Freycinet map is already in European maritime exploration of Australia, about 2/3 of the way down in the article, so I agree with the comment above. Bahudhara (talk) 06:31, 22 May 2026 (UTC)