Since Australia is on this map from the 1500s, why did it take

>>1678659
You see that flying sea dragon patrolling the coast, right?

>>1678659
why is britain and netherlands connected?

just aesthetic preference ... ?

They couldn't handle the bantz

>>1678659
Probably because in the green areas of Australia it's still hot as fuck and any explorers who landed there were just like fuck this and left

Ned Kelly shot at the boats

>>1678769
they foresaw the glorious revolution and the domination of british politics by the dutch

>>1678659
The assumption of the "Terra Incognita Australis" existed already back then. the problem was that there was still the "Terra Incognita Borealis" to conquer and explore and, really, they assumed I was little more than speculation.

>>1678666
Underrated post

They didn't find the east coast, which was more readily inhabitable.

>>1678659
They fucked off because it was already full. It's like you don't know anything about Australia.

>>1678666
kek'd

>>1678659
bump

>>1678659
The existence of the great southern continent was based solely on balance of landmasses.

Only a retard would colonize a fucking giant desert.

>>1678659
think terminator;
"ill be back"

get u later nigger
india first china second

think of the empire as blade and au that vampire he lets go, come back for you later niggguhhh

>>1681145
the outback is pretty noice

>>1678666
American geographical education does it again!!

>>1678666
>>1678842
>>1681121
Terre Australis is Antarctica, dumb monkeys
Australia is the big green island at the bottom left of the Americas

>>1678769

BECAUSE BRITAIN USED TO BE CONNECTED TO THE MAINLAND BY WHAT IS NOW KNOWN AS "DOGGERLAND"; "DOGGERLAND" WAS EITHER NATURALLY, OR ARTIFICIALLY, SUBMERGED IN CIRCA SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.

>>1681306

NO; THE "GREEN" LANDMASS IS NEW GUINEA; AUSTRALIA IS FUSED WITH ANTARCTICA ON THAT MAP FOR SOME REASON WHICH I IGNORE.

>>1681344
>DOGGERLAND
Huh, well isn't that something.

>>1678659

The existance of Terra Australis was a theoretical assumption. The better question is why there was so very little interest in exploring all that area, and the eventual discoveries happened by accident, as in Torres literally drifting away into what is now the Torres strait, and the dutch sailing fast down low latitudes from Cape of Good Hope following the roaring 40s before turning north towards Java and stumbling upon western Australia.