Scottish Colonisation of Australia.

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?
 
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