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The British settled Australia in the late 1700's. to me that seems like plenty of time for many other countries to have set up colonies there considering how Spain, France, Holland, and Portugal had settled in the new world 300 years earlier. Also the Chinese had sent ships out in previous times. I also wonder about the Polynesians who settled Hawaii could have instead chosen to settle in Australia.

So if not England settling Australia, what other countries most likely would have or could have done it?
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