Spanish Australia?

BlackMage

Curiously, amongst the plethora of French, British, Dutch, and Portuguese Australias, this seldom seems to come up.

WI the Spanish had colonised Australia, during their great age of colonisation? It's not that far from the Philippines, and could have been reached accidently any time in the seventeenth century. After all, it's not entirely inconspicuous.

How long could such a colony last? Would the Spanish be able to claim the entire continent, or just fractions of it?
 

Wendell

BlackMage said:
Curiously, amongst the plethora of French, British, Dutch, and Portuguese Australias, this seldom seems to come up.

WI the Spanish had colonised Australia, during their great age of colonisation? It's not that far from the Philippines, and could have been reached accidently any time in the seventeenth century. After all, it's not entirely inconspicuous.

How long could such a colony last? Would the Spanish be able to claim the entire continent, or just fractions of it?
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There would be little if any interest for the Spanish to launch such an endeavor, unless they comfortably control more of Europe.
 

Diamond

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I've used this idea a time or two in various maps. I've always thought that if Britain or another European nation besides Spain discovered and was first off the block in colonizing the Americas, that Spain would be a more far-flung empire, territorially, and that a Spanish Australia wouldn't be out of the question.

...and I get a chance to trot out this map again, one of Wendell's favorites. :D
 
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Alayta

Diamond said:
Thanks; I was especially proud of the way Senegal turned out.
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Because it stretches along the gambia river? :p
Good map!

I think the idea of spain colonizing australia is not bad. I have the feeling, that european countries tended to colonize aereas with climatic concditions similar to their home. Thinking this (discusable) way, terra del sur is much more likely than the "new spain" in diamonds map.
 

Melvin Loh

How would the spaniards then have treated the blackfellas ? Would they have mounted expeditions against the indigenes just as had occurred in Mexico & Sth Am ?
 

Wendell

Alayta said:
Because it stretches along the gambia river? :p
Good map!

I think the idea of spain colonizing australia is not bad. I have the feeling, that european countries tended to colonize aereas with climatic concditions similar to their home. Thinking this (discusable) way, terra del sur is much more likely than the "new spain" in diamonds map.
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I think that Diamond's comment was directed at me:(
 
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