austrialia

1526.-Six days after going into the vastness of the Pacific Ocean on June 2, the squad found another storm that broke García Jofre de Loaísa expedition to conquer Molucas.
After some months and many hardships, the expedition arrives in a land that only appears in the imagination of some scientists. The so called terra australis incognita (in fact is New Zealand, but I want give it a "new name", you know, more bombastically than New Zealand) The land was found depopulated.
Some years later, fear of a British base in the Pacific would make Spain to create a colony in the islands (a most successful attempt than the Salomon Islands, of course)



The question is: is all plausible? what would be the next step?
 
1. Please spell "Australia" correctly next time! Although I do give you credit in putting the obligatory extra "i" in a different spot to where people usually put one.

2. Depopulated, huh? Where are the Maoris?
 
In fact, the name Australia comes from Spanish Austria (yeah, I know, there are other possibilities to explain Australia name, but I would like to maintain the i because I would like to use this explanation and I´m still in the XVI century, je, je)
I´n fact, centuries later, we discovered that the maories ancestors really reach the islands but they possibly find the lands so cold (I get the idea from a BBC documentary) for their crops and their culture in general so the far fewer individuals that reach the land, possibly didn´t succed in the colony. Their fate isn´t well known. (In fact, as Spanish, I´m so tired of exterminate civilizations so I find the thought of uninhabited islands (I thought that is not so outlandish an idea))
 
1522. Portuguese first made contact with the region.
1526. survivors of the expedition of Loaisa see the shores of a large island (Australia) in their voyage to the Moluccas. they call the land Austrialia in honor of the ruling house in Spain
1605. the spanish expedition of Quiros to establish a colony in the area fails.
1685. arrival of the first French Huguenots (actual Perth)
 
In a TL I made a long time ago involving Spanish colonization of the south Pacific, I named Australia "Terranova" and New Zealand was "Nueva Zaragoza."
 
In a TL I made a long time ago involving Spanish colonization of the south Pacific, I named Australia "Terranova" and New Zealand was "Nueva Zaragoza."
In fact, the most of the crew of the San Lesmes (one of the ships of the expedition of Loaisa that could arrive in New Zealand in 1526) were from Galicia, so I thought calling the island of New Galicia.
As for Australia, wanted to use the name given by Quiros to an island (he thought that this was a continent), ie, Austrialia of the Holy Spirit.

In fact, I´m not building a TL, I am proposing ideas so I could achieve a TL one day with a different division of oceania, so thanks for the help
 
I read once that one of the tasks of Francis Drake on his circumnavigation was to search for the southern continent which the english called 'Beach'.

If the Spanish find and colonise Australia in the 1520s then Drake could include raiding it on his circumnavigation. Or alternately he could possibly locate the east coast in 1580ish and give the British a 190 year head start on OTL.
 
In fact, I´m thinking in Cavendish for the first british presence in the zone (I mean Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia)
 
In my old A Kingdom and a Horse TL, I had the Spanish discover a land called Tierra del Sur, or Delsore, as it was anglicised.
 
1526. survivors of the expedition of Loaisa see the shores of a large island (Australia) in their voyage to the Moluccas. they call the land Austrialia in honor of the ruling house in Spain

Other people have pointed it out, but wouldn't New Austria - or its equivalent in Spanish be more likely? Why couldn't also be something like Habsburgia?
 
Aristotle and Ptolemy first mentioned Terra Australis (as a guess), Australis meaning south. This is where Australia's name comes from, Terra Ausrtalis Incognita the Unkown South Land, not from Austria.
 
I repeat, there are several ways to explain the name of Australia. I just wanted to use the name that gave Quiros in 1605 to an island in the Vanuatu, when he thought he had found a continent. He mixed Austral and Austria and called the island as "Austrialia del Espíritu Santo" (Austrialia of the Holy Spirit).
I wanted to gave that name to the land that could discovered some survivors of San Lesmes (Loaisa expedition) in 1526. You could see the ideas of Robert Langdon.
New Zealand as New Galicia as most of the crew were from Galicia, and Australia as Austrialia of the Holy Spirit. Then they arrive Indonesia and were captured by the Portuguese. Then they could be rescued by Alvaro de Saavedra (expedition sent by Cortes to rescue previous expeditions) in 1527 and carried the news of new lands with them.
 
I review the Dale Cozort page and I'm intrigued. Dale Cozort already figured into a uninhabited New Zealand scenario!
 
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