#RA-3339Read AloudCore & AcademicEasy
European explorers
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Before European explorers had reached Australia, it was believed that all swans were white. Dutch mariner, Antoine Caen, was the first to be amazed at the sight of Australia's Black swans on the Shark Bay in Explorer Willem de Viamingh captured two of these creatures on Australia's Swan River and returned with them to Europe to prove their existence.
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