Did the Portuguese "discover" Australia in the 1520's? There is much circumstantial evidence to suggest that a Portuguese discovery of Australia in the 1520's is highly probable. There is much evidence to suggest that it was neither the Dutch nor the British to be the first Europeans to discover Australia, but the Portuguese, around the 1520's. As stated in McIntyre's "Secret Discovery of Australia" it is believed that "The evidence of pre-Cook, pre-Dutch visits by …showed first 75 words of 1912 total…

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