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Updated: May 16, 2025

This ceremony concluded, and rejoicing in the re-discovery of Torres Straits the waters of which had borne no keel since the gallant Spaniard had passed through he sailed to New Guinea, Cook having thus completed the survey of that portion of the South Land so long left a blank upon the map, never returned unless his visit to Van Dieman's Land, in 1777, can be called a visit-to our shores, but the names he bestowed on the many bays, headlands, and islands of the east coast have clung to them ever since.

Ernest Favenc - The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888