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An archeologist claims to have found a 16th century European coin in a swamp on Australia’s east coast, raising new questions about whether Captain James Cook was beaten to the continent by the Spanish or Portuguese. The silver coin, which is inscribed with the date 1597, was discovered by a group led by amateur archeologist Greg Jefferys.
A COIN found in a snake-infested swamp could help prove a century-old theory that a Spanish or Portuguese ship was wrecked on Australia’s east coast years before Captain James Cook’s famed voyage of discovery.
For a century, rumors have circulated that the remains of a 16th or 17th-century Spanish or Portuguese vessel lie in the snake-infested 18 Mile Swamp at the southern end of the Moreton Bay island. Evidence may point towards the presence of other mariners on the Australian east coast well before Captain Cook made his voyage of discovery in 1770.
A 16th century maritime map in a Los Angeles library vault proves Portuguese adventurers, not British or Dutch, were the first Europeans to discover Australia, according to a new book detailing the secret discovery of the continent.
A Portuguese fleet searching for fabled islands of gold came to New Zealand and Australia 250 years before Captain Cook, an author has claimed in a new book. So it seems that Captain Cook is not the man who discovered NZ after all!
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