when did the europeans arrive in the latter place?
26 February 1606
Australia
He sighted the coast of Cape York Peninsula in early 1606, and made landfall on 26 February at the Pennefather River near the modern town of Weipa on Cape York
between which parties was the naval battle of guadalcanal fought? Allied (primarily American) and Imperial Japanese forces on which water body was it fought? Guadalcanal island in the south-western Pacific, northeast of Australia
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Australia [SEP] European arrival
The first recorded European sighting of the Australian mainland, and the first recorded European landfall on the Australian continent, are attributed to the Dutch. The first ship and crew to chart the Australian coast and meet with Aboriginal people was the "Duyfken" captained by Dutch navigator, Willem Janszoon. He sighted the coast of Cape York Peninsula in early 1606, and made landfall on 26 February at the Pennefather River near the modern town of Weipa on Cape York. Later that year, Spanish explorer Luís Vaz de Torres sailed through, and navigated, Torres Strait islands. The Dutch charted the whole of the western and northern coastlines and named the island continent "New Holland" during the 17th century, and although no attempt at settlement was made, a number of shipwrecks left men either stranded or, as in the case of the "Batavia" in 1629, marooned for mutiny and murder, thus becoming the first Europeans to permanently inhabit the continent.