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A 19th-century engraving of an Aboriginal Australian encampment, showing the indigenous lifestyle in the cooler parts of Australia at the time of European settlement The first contact between British explorers and Indigenous Australians came in 1770, when Lieutenant James Cook interacted with the Guugu Yimithirr people around contemporary ...
At the time of European colonisation of Australia, the Aboriginal people consisted of complex cultural societies with more than 250 languages [6] and varying degrees of technology and settlements. Languages (or dialects) and language-associated groups of people are connected with stretches of territory known as "Country", with which they have a ...
The Indigenous population prior to European settlement was small, with estimates ranging widely from 318,000 [16] to more than 3,000,000 [17] in total. Given geographic and habitat conditions, they were distributed in a pattern similar to that of the current Australian population.
At the time of first European contact, estimates of the Aboriginal population range from 300,000 to one million. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] They were complex hunter-gatherers with diverse economies and societies.
In the 1830s and early 1840s there were also missions in the Wellington Valley, Port Phillip and Moreton Bay. The settlement for Aboriginal Tasmanians on Flinders Island operated effectively as a mission under George Robinson from 1835 to 1838. [185] In New South Wales, 116 Aboriginal reserves were established between 1860 and 1894.
Aboriginal Victorians, the Aboriginal Australians of Victoria, Australia, occupied the land for tens of thousands of years prior to European settlement. [1] Aboriginal people have lived a semi-nomadic existence of fishing, hunting and gathering and associated activities for at least 40,000 years.
Before European settlement. ... expeditions led by Bruni d'Entrecasteaux in 1792–93 and Nicolas Baudin in 1802 made friendly contact with the Aboriginal Tasmanians; ...
In London, the "Aboriginal Protection Society" published an "Outline for a System for Legislation Securing the Protection of All Inhabitants of All Countries Colonised by Great Britain'" which "urged that it be a fundamental principle of colonisation that no settlement be made on any land possessed or claimed by its inhabitants, without consent ...