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| | Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-Early French Explorers of Australia- |
 | | But no, these early French explorers and their small ships were out pushing back the frontiers of exploration, seeking out new territory to chart and claim for France, to expand her colonial empire. |
 | | It is interesting that this island became a common thread woven into the lives of several of the early French explorers, plus Matthew Flinders, all of whom were involved in the early exploration of Australia. |
 | | In 1785 he was appointed to lead a French expedition to the Pacific, many of the European nations, England, the Dutch, the Portuguese and the Spanish, all anxious to gain new territories, or the treasures from the East such as the spices, control and sale of which the Dutch had probably already gained a monopoly. |
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