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In the year 1526 a colony was established in the mouth of what would become Darwin Harbor (Darwin, NT, Australia). The Low (almost Sea-level) landform provided what was seen as an ideal site for a Port. Dominating the site was a White Mosque reminiscent of the Taj Mahal. There was some trade with the Indigenous people who resided there about the huge harbor (Some twelve to fourteen tribes occupying the vast 30' high escarpment dominating the eastern half of the Harbor entrance (Darwin was eventually built there)).

Over the next few decades they experienced Cyclones and even a Tidal Wave. These forces ended the colony and scoured it from the earth destroying almost all trace of it (except for cultural influences in the indigenous population and language and a few non-indigenous artefacts).

It is not until the 1700's when Captain James "Reef? What reef? Oops!" Cook ran a-ground off the East Coast of Australia That Colonization interest picks up.

What if the Colony had persisted in the face of adversity?
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