Pre-History Of Australia Essay

Australia, or officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country that lies in the Southern hemisphere. It comprises of the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and the other smaller islands surrounding it. In terms of its area, it is the sixth-largest country of the world. It is surrounded by countries like the Papua Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to its north; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to its north-east; and New Zealand to its south-east. Canberra, is the capital of Australia's while Sydney being its largest urban area. As far as the history of inhabitation in the Australian contitenent is known, the land was inhabited by the indegnous Australians for about fifty thousand years before the first European settlement in the continent in the latter half of the 18th century. The language these people spoke was classifiable into roughly 250 groups. But there is not enough recorded history of all these and therefore the record of this period is popularly termed as the ‘pre-history’ of Australia. Whatever we know as the history of Australia is mostly the history of Australia after being spotted and colonized by the Europeans. It is quite difficult to understand what Australia really is, or what it actually

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