Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian history/Exploration 1500-1599

Expedition Articles
These articles relate to explorer expeditions to, in or around Australia and it's territories.

1500’s

 * 1503 Gonneville expedition of 1503 Binot Paulmier de Gonneville visited the South Seas, and is claimed by the French to have touched on Australia. (now discredited)
 * resources - The History of Australian Exploration - Timeline by Ernest Favenc
 * 1520 Magellan expedition of 1520 Ferdinand Magellan, the first circumnavigator, claims to have discovered Australia. (Doubtful.)
 * resources - The History of Australian Exploration - Timeline by Ernest Favenc
 * 1542 le Testu expedition of 1542 Guillaume le Testu (c. 1509-1573), see List of pirates and Cimarron people (Panama). Claims based on a map now in the Depôt de la Guerre, at Paris, indicating Australia.
 * resources - The History of Australian Exploration - Timeline by Ernest Favenc
 * short bio
 * See Page 7, footnote 1 of the First Discovery of Australia for a rebuttal of claim