Scroll down and a map shows up with New Guinea connected to Australia but a small missing part on that map shows where in this perspective the Torres Strait could have been.
See also:
The Colonial Warship the Doerga explored northern Australia (1825-1826)
Dutch Explorers in the Gulf of Carpentaria
First contact between the Dutch and the Aboriginal People
In the final days of the Second World War in Europe, an extraordinary act of humanity took place in the skies over the Netherlands. For almost six years, Allied and German forces had been trying Read more
NEFIS and international intelligence cooperation from Australia during WWII The Japanese conquest of the Netherlands East Indies in early 1942 left the Dutch without their principal territory in Asia, much of their armed forces and Read more
monDutch post-war migration to Australia is generally regarded as one of the major success stories of Australia’s mass immigration program. Yet migration was not always permanent. A frequently quoted figure suggests that around 25 per Read more