Australia itself is massive, I mean wouldn’t travellers from Europe discover the North-west corner first and start building from that end? But the biggest cities are all the way on the other side of a continent. Why?
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The thing to know is that unlike the scramble to settle the Americas, Europeans took about 200 years to get from exploring the coast of Australia to actually trying to colonize it. When they did finally make serious attempts, they looked hard for places that would support settlement with rivers and plentiful grass, not just the first spot they found.
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