IOTL the First Fleet sailed to Australia on the strength of a single voyage of exploration some 17 years previously. They arrived to find Botany Bay not nearly as good as it was described and went a bit further north to Sydney. Similarly there were several half-arsed colonisation attempts in North America in the 1500s, the lost colony of Roanoke and pre-tobbacco Jamestown come to mind.
This 1659 map show the distillation of Dutch knowledge of Australia up to 1644. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Thevenot_-_Hollandia_Nova_detecta_1644.png Could the Scots, who had a go at settling Nova Scotia in the 1620s and the Darein Scheme in the 1690s, could run with this knowledge, fill in some gaps in these maps and mount a sustained if dodgy colonisation on the SE coast of Australia? My only criteria is that it happen before 1688 and start in SE SA/SW Vic. Is there any other group who might fit the bill?
This is in the wrong place, can someone who knows what they're doing move it to pre 1900 please?
This 1659 map show the distillation of Dutch knowledge of Australia up to 1644. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Thevenot_-_Hollandia_Nova_detecta_1644.png Could the Scots, who had a go at settling Nova Scotia in the 1620s and the Darein Scheme in the 1690s, could run with this knowledge, fill in some gaps in these maps and mount a sustained if dodgy colonisation on the SE coast of Australia? My only criteria is that it happen before 1688 and start in SE SA/SW Vic. Is there any other group who might fit the bill?
This is in the wrong place, can someone who knows what they're doing move it to pre 1900 please?
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