| In 1622, company of the ship Leeuwin sighted the south west corner of Australia and it was realized that from that point on the coast trended eastwards. |
They described the land they found as low-lying, sandy dunes and gave it the name 'Leeuwin Land'.
A few months later forty six men reached Batavia in open boats, the survivors of an English ship the Tryal which had been wrecked on some rocks in Latitude 20šS and in longitude due south of the east end of Java.
It had almost certainly sighted Point Cloates before running on the rocks north of Barrow Island, and if so Captain Brooke and his crew were the first "Englishmen" to see the continent of Australia.
This wreck of the Tryal helped the decision of the Dutch to properly explore the area and led them to undertake a systematic examination of these coasts.
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