The Lost Dutch People in Australia

[BeTheGoddess]

This is most likely a tall tale from someone who was bored, but there has been a story of a "lost" group of Dutch people in the middle of the desert here in Australia.

I first hear of them from an episode of the TV programme The Bush Tucker Man; some background on him:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Hiddins

As for the story goes like this

Les Hiddins, also known as the “Bush Tucker Man,” has dedicated years to researching a fascinating Australian mystery: the possibility of a Dutch colony existing in Central Australia long before Captain Cook’s arrival. According to a Leeds Mercury newspaper account from 1834, up to 300 Dutch people may have lived in Central Australia from around 1710 until their eventual decline before 1860[sup]1[/sup] 

 

I've noted in my Instagram Account that there is considerable interest in the episode that we did in the second series of Bush Tucker Man concerning the possible Dutch Colony in Central Australia. That episode was titled The Dutch Settlement. Research on this topic has been ongoing for the past 20 odd years and we now have the situation where the case has been historically proven beyond reasonable doubt.

https://ia804602.us.archive.org/18/items...w-site.pdf

Its not something I believe, while there is a much longer history of Dutch sailors visiting the Western Australian coast, to be able to survive in the interior, its kinda far fetched for me.

Its more of an odity that a whole "lost civilization" but if you want to let us know your thoughts, well thats why we're here.