Australia’s historical background

Australia's historical background

Australia’s historical background

News Time

Australia knows most of Pakistan’s cricket team. Its official name is Commonwealth Australia. This country consists of the world’s largest continent. It includes a large island of Tasmania and a small island of South Sea, Sea Indian and Pacific. Its neighboring countries are located on the north side of Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea north, the Solomon Islands and the Vanuatu north-east and New Zealand south-east. The name is derived from the Latin Australis meaning south. Tales of unknown land in the south are found in ancient Roman times. But they did not have any real information about the original continent. Australia’s word was used in English for the first time in 1625. In 1793 George Shaw and Sir James Edward Smith published the name of Zoology and botany of New Holland. In which he mentioned a vast island and not the continent. In 1814 the name of Australia was famous, a British Navigator wrote in his book after his travel. His name was Matthew Flanders and he stirred around Australia for the first time. Although the nature of this book was a military, the word Australia got popularity because this book was widely read. Later the New South Wales governor used the word “Australia” in his official posts and in 1817, the name was recommended to officialize the name which was approved.

This question is not interesting when the human population was in Australia. The general opinion is that local Aussies came here 60 thousand years ago. According to a new research they were present here even before. They are called auberjeans. Then it became the British colonist in the late 18th century. Languages ​​spoken by the Australian Aussie can be split into 250 groups. Auctioned campaign first reached this continent in 1606 and he named him New Holland. The UK claims to possess ownership in the southern half of Australia and started sending people here as punishment.

New areas were discovered as well as population growth; more than 5 colonies were made in the 19th century. On January 1, 1 901, these 6 colonies made a federation and thus, the Commonwealth Australia came into existence. Since then, the moderate democratic political system in Australia is related. Its capital is Canberra. Australia’s area is more than 76 million square kilometers. However, population ratio is lower than the ratio of the area. Its population is around 1.5 million.

Advertisement

No comments.

Leave a Reply