http://mat.su matsu (n): japanese for pine tree Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:36:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://mat.su/proof-that-the-portuguese-got-to-australia-first/ http://mat.su/proof-that-the-portuguese-got-to-australia-first/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:31:19 +0000 Pedro Pinheiro http://mat.su/?p=358 Although I’m not Portuguese by birth, my whole family is Portuguese, and I’ve lived here most of my life.  This is why I found this story interesting, that an Australian author, Peter Trickett, is claiming in his book Beyond Capricorn that the Portuguese, and not the British or the Dutch, were the first to arrive in Australia.  History is not always buried beyond reach.  Read the article at the Washington Post here.  Via Kottke, an interesting blog about everything and anything.

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