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for more details!Great changes have occurred along Australia's coast since Dutch captains first landed in the West at the beginning of the Seventeenth Century. Many people, especially students, environmentalists, yachtsmen and tourists, may wish to know what the first visitors saw and why they attached names to coastal features. These pages present quotes, with comments in italics, from their diaries, especially from Matthew Flinders'
They are based on my book
which used material in the Barr
Smith Library of Adelaide University. The maps were drawn by Md. Esan Ullah and the illustrations during Flinders' voyage
by William Westall, Robert
Brown and Ferdinand Bauer, and by Phillip Parker King.
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1. South Coast 2. East Coast 3. North Coast 4. North-West Coast 5. West Coast 6. Tasmania 7. Kangaroo Island |
Rainer Radok 
[radok81@bkk2.loxinfo.co.th]
