Cape Wood [SEP] continent
Cape Wood
Cape Wood () is a point marking the east extremity of Flat Island at the western entrance to Robertson Bay, Victoria Land, Antarctica. Discovered in January 1841 by Captain James Ross, Royal Navy, and named by him for Charles Wood, Esq., First Secretary to the Admiralty.
, wood, and stone tools, had a productive agricultural system. In 1660, the Dutch recognised the Sultan of Tidore's sovereignty over New Guinea. The first known Europeans to sight New Guinea were probably the Portuguese and Spanish navigators sailing in the South Pacific in the early part of the 16th century.
Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon, made the first documented European sight and landing on the continent of Australia, in Cape York Peninsula (1606). Abel Janszoon Tasman circumnavigated and landed on parts of the Australian continental coast and