What took so long to find Australia? If they were colonizing in Indonesia and papua new guinea etc why didn't they just also travel south?
What took so long to find Australia...
Carson Perry
Mason Green
it was only really useful as a prison
Carter Walker
Most of Australia is uninhabitable waste
Bentley Gonzalez
When the British landed in the southeast (Sydney) they realised it's potential for a colony. Dutch and Portuguese explorers only ever really interacted with the Northern and Western coasts of Australia, Inhospitable desert and jungle with spear chucking 60 IQ cavemen.
Gavin Scott
They knew about it, and did some trading with the natives, but Australia is essentially a shithole and the natives had nothing of value to trade with outsiders. It wasn't until the Europeans arrived that any outsider found any use for the place (as an open-air prison).
Xavier Ramirez
It has more arable land than France, Germany and Italy combined, so not really.
Gabriel James
Are you stupid?
Most of Australia is uninhabitable, like he said.
God I hate snarky r*dditors
Eli Diaz
oh sorry user, I'll be sure NOT to do research next time.
Adrian Sullivan
In the side facing away from Indonesia and the old world. The side facing colonisers was pretty unpleasant
Isaiah Reyes
Good luck trying to navigate unknown waters without nowadays technology. Also, they knew of it but not the overall size and good regions (there weren't that many expeditions just to discover and to map stuff), like the majority of countries in Europe with America 300y earlier.