![]() ![]() ↠ RELATED: 50+ UNIQUE THINGS TO DO IN MELBOURNE Urgh, Melbourne – why are you so awesome? 3. Plus he was seemingly not a rad dude, so perhaps it’s best that Australia’s coolest city is not named after him. This name unlike Batmania, stuck.ĭon’t feel too bad for Batman – remnants of the first settlement can be found across the city, in Batman Bridge, Hill, Street, Park and more. In 1837 however, it was officially named Melbourne, after the then British prime minister William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne. He came across the site which is now known as Central Melbourne in 1835, decided it would be a fine place to start a village and declared it “Batmania”, which we can all agree is an awesome name for a city. This is one of the weirder facts about Australia that I rather enjoy.īefore Melbourne was Melbourne, it was a small settlement on the Yarra River, which was founded by a man called John Batman. Indigenous Australians arrived on the island continent many tens of thousands of years ago. Let’s not forget that Australia was in fact already settled well before either of these European countries could lay claim to it. If they’d beaten the English to settlement (or more correctly, invasion), I’d be sitting here typing this out in Dutch, which is a weird thought. They may be worth storing in some far recess of your brain, to bring out at a future dinner party.Īlthough James Cook reportedly ‘discovered’ Australia in 1770, the Dutch had known about the country’s existence for years – in fact, since the early 1600s.ĭutchman Abel Tasman stumbled upon Van Diemen’s Land (which was later named Tasmania after him in 1856) in 1642 and passed the coast of Australia two years later, dubbing it New Holland. Here are a few other interesting facts about Australia for kids and adults alike. There are so many fun facts about Australia that you may or may not have been aware of.įrom quirky politicians, to obscure and archaic laws and some of the strangest biodiversity in the world… the Land Down Under has it all. The art in country Australia is strange, too. You never know – These weird facts about Australia may help you during your next pub trivia night. Australia is an undeniably strange place.
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