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Although the British explorers such as Cook and Flinders often get the credit for ‘discovering’ Aboriginal Australia, they were by no means the first. The Spanish, the Portuguese, the Dutch and (much earlier) the Indonesians all beat Britain to the flag. The waters around Australia were, from the 1600s on, a hotbed of navigators, explorers, traders — and sailors who were just plain lost.