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does Australia exist?

Somerville said:
No, Bodi. An Englishman created the name using an ancient Latin word - which is what I wrote.
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I thought that Abel Tasman was the first to find Australia... now they are saying a Latino did and used ancient words to name things?
 
Bodi said:
I thought that Abel Tasman was the first to find Australia... now they are saying a Latino did and used ancient words to name things?
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Abel Tasman was not the first European to find the continent, 38 years earlier (1606) Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon sailed around the continent. BUT - the first people to "find Australia" were the ancestors of those we call Aborigines today. Those ancestors landed in Australia about 65,000 years ago.

The term "Latino" denotes a male person from Central or South America of Hispanic descent. Flinders was an Englishman who used an ancient Latin adjective indicating an object, a place or a person was "southern"
 
Somerville said:
Abel Tasman was not the first European to find the continent, 38 years earlier (1606) Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon sailed around the continent.
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It was a joke, Tasman was the first to find Tasmania, New Zealand and the first to confirm Australia was an island, not discover or land on Aussie...
... I stated that like I stated the Latin / Latino thing.
Somerville said:
BUT - the first people to "find Australia" were the ancestors of those we call Aborigines today. Those ancestors landed in Australia about 65,000 years ago.
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Yes... common knowledge.
Somerville said:
The term "Latino" denotes a male person from Central or South America of Hispanic descent. Flinders was an Englishman who used an ancient Latin adjective indicating an object, a place or a person was "southern"
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You missed the joke (or attempt at humor)... *shrug*
 
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This is a lot more interesting than what those humans did:

Australia began its journey across the surface of the Earth as an isolated continent between about 55 and 10 million years ago, and continues to ...
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www.ga.gov.au

Australian Landforms and their History

Australia's landscape is very distinctive and unique. But it took many millions of years and some amazing climatic and geological processes to produce what we see today.
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