Why was Australia, a relatively unknown continent that was barren, colonized exclusively only by the British?
Because someone has to colonize it first
>>533556710fuck off we're full
>>533556710>exclusively only
>>533556762>4 people per km^2Clearly not
>>533556762Australia's National Anthem.
>>533556710The only other power who might have tried was France and they were busy with other things and werent as mich of a sea power at that time as they had been. A big part of the motivation for britain to colonies Aus and NZ was simply preventing the French from doing it though
>>533556710>Why was Australia, a relatively unknown continent that was barren, colonized exclusively only by the British?every living thing native there wants to kill you. It started as a penal colony. People couldn't run off the government areas because snakes and spiders would kill them, and couldn't swim off because of the sharks. And the only women you have are abbos...
>>533557106The Brits only started shipping prisoners here after their previous prison colony chimped out in 1776
>>533556710At the time of Australia's discovery the only countries that were in the position to colonise it were the Brits and the French.
>>533556710the british just capitalised on Dutch exploration. Without the Dutch they couldnt achieve anything.
>>533556858Our anthem literally say we have boundless plains to share (with white people). So fuck off, you off brand island chink, we’re full.
>>533557190colonial america was the wealthiest place on earth, with the highest standard of living.
>>533557348You got bested by the bigger philosemites
>>533557348even old New York was once New Amsterdam
It doesn't make a lot of sense in this timeline, being so close to Indonesia and New Guinea. Back on original Earth it was substantially farther south and was actually "down under". It's nowhere near as remote any more.
>>533556710>barrenmassive forests used to cover it, until the polynesian rejects burned everything as a means of "hunting"
>>533557858you see that small island?the entire continent was like that
No one was going to mess with the British navy at that time, although there was a bit of a race with the French, the Lapérouse expedition that disappeared without a trace and the same expedition Napoleon Bonaparte signed up for. Lapérouse’s expedition encountered the British “First Fleet.” This collection of ships brought the first European settlers and convicts to Australia. It was Australia’s Mayflower; the day that the First Fleet landed in Sydney Cove is today celebrated as Australia Day. The British and the French hung out together for a while, and then Lapérouse set sail again. The expedition was never heard from again.
>>533556762Is the land cursed like America's forests and mountains because they both have been discovered and settled relatively late in human history and there wasn't enough time to purge these creatures from God's domain?
>>533558383nah, just at uluru where one of the world trees waseverywhere else is whatever
>>533558383The movie Picnic and Hanging Rock portrays the weirdness you can encounter in the Australian bush sometimes. It happened to me when I was a kid camping deep in the blue mountains west of Sydney, very strange things happen, you feel as if you're being hunted.
>>533557348Yeah and it's a shame, but you kind of did it to yourself by only looking at the colonies through a mercantile lens. Pretty much no one was sent or encouraged to settle the east indies or tasmania/new zealand, desipite the latter having almost no one and the formers fiscal incentive granting the dutch navy more than enough excuse to use it's logistical capabiity to claim a few islands, also neither had competition from other europeans at the time of the trade networks establishment (unlike the americas). Not to mention that all the hydraulic and coastal lifestyle was perfectly suited to an archipelago resting on a rellatively shallow plateau. Even the boers were a result of fiscal mindset (gold speculation). The dutch ascent and decline is basically a microcosm for how the longterm of trade centric lifestyles lead, it's all short term in benefit and ultimately self defeating, as said benefits of maximized margins when their hot is far outweighed by the oppurtunity to make more proper use of it and consequent loss of said oppurtunity owing to the diffusion of power that comes with showing others to properly make use of it.Granted for you it kind of made sense for the period because your country is tiny with no natural resources outside of agriculture.
>>533556710Britain was the only nation who could, logistically speaking. They had the ships and more importantly, the people to spare. At the time Australia was discovered by James Cook, England was so overcrowded that the life expectancy was 15 years. Poverty, disease and crime were rife in London. The prisons were so overflowing that excess inmates were being held in "prison ships" in the harbour.Yes, ironically there was a time when Britain was so packed to bursting with British people that they had to send them away as boat people. Let that sink in given modern events.
I SAID TO THE MAN ARE YOU TRYING TO TEMPT MEBECAUSE I COME FROM THE LAND OF PLENTY
>>533556710it was used as the trash bin for people that anglo society didn't want to deal withof course, they were also the only ones deeming this acceptable rather than trying to build something that works better
>>533560694You're forgetting the revolutions that the British were witnessing all around them, it was these same young people that were becoming ungovernable in England, the only solution they had was to put them in the nick for any tiny offence. Then transportation as the final solution.
>>533556710The actual real reason is, they couldnt send their refuse to America anymore after the whole war of independence so they sent them here
>>533556853the only place you can live is the coast, so not really.
>>533556710It's far away from everyone else, so it's not a vital port for the trading empires, but the Brits wanted lebensraum.
>>533560786maybe they would have been better off if the rulers had been overthrown
>>533557418Your nation is literally death in every direction once you are 3 hours opposite the coast line (even less in the Northern Territory and WA) you fucking retarded half-wog dropkick fuckwit.
>>533556710because developing the Americas and trading with Japan and the East Indies was more profitable than colonizing a giant desert.>>533559134>James Cookit was known since the 1600s by Spanish and Dutch explorers. But they had better things to do farther north (including blockading London during one of the Dutch-British wars).
