Descobriram mas não contaram!!

Os descobridores portugueses eram como o Sebastião, descobriram tudo e não sobrou nada... Nem a Austrália cuja descoberta é atribuida ao Capitão Cook , escapou!!
Notícia do Telegraph:

The image of Captain Cook stepping onto the shores of Botany Bay has been a staple of British history books for generations but now it seems the explorer may have been beaten to Australia by the Portuguese, who arrived 250 years earlier. ...

"I know it s very hard to believe because this was taking place decades before the birth of William Shakespeare," he told ABC radio.

"But the maps show the entire east coast of Australia, virtually the entire west coast and a very large part of the south coast, as far as Kangaroo Island and the Great Australian Bight, which the Portuguese called Golfo Grande." Mr Trickett believes the charts were made by a Portuguese seafarer, Christopher de Mendonca, who was sent from the Portuguese fort at Malacca, in present day Malaysia, to search for a fabled land of gold alluded to by Marco Polo.

"The Portuguese were obsessed with secrecy because of their rivalry with Spain," Mr Trickett said. "They didn't colonise Australia because they didn't have the manpower or the resources, and then their empire started to collapse."

Portugal - Inglaterra: 1-0