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The maritime history of Australias monsoon coast, stretching from Broome to Thursday Island, has a known story that is far older, more complex and more redolent of men against the sea than any other coast of the continent. Here came the earliest explorers of Australia, the greatest of her hydrographic surveyors, the whole of her pearling fleets, the trepang and trochus-shell gatherers of the East Indies, the seaborne missionaries of Cape York, Arnhem Land and the Kimberley shore, the bold entrepreneurs who forged and kept open the thin line of sea transport that alone enabled European settlement to survive on that long and lonely coast. Here, too, was fought the only real naval war in Australias history and here the Royal Australian Navy still holds the front line in the countrys defence.
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Northern voyagers: Australia's monsoon coast in maritime history
2011, Australian Scholarly Publishing
in English
1921509937 9781921509933
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