French Western Australia
18th-century French territorial claim / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
French Western Australia (French: Australie-Occidentale française) was a French territorial claim in modern-day Western Australia. It was made at Dirk Hartog Island by an expedition under French explorer Louis Aleno de St Aloüarn in 1772.
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