Sometimes I wonder how the fuck did British empire single handedly colonized these really huge landmass in the pacific...

Sometimes I wonder how the fuck did British empire single handedly colonized these really huge landmass in the pacific without much resistances from other European countries.

Where's the Dutch,French,Spain,Portuguese and German?

Germany did not exist
Dutch were nearby in more interesting lands
French were beaten to the punch
Spain had their hands full and were in decline

It is a good thing, otherwise we'd have a fragmented and mostly shithole land-mass. As it is now we can comfortably exist for a long time on mining and farming alone and we never have wars.

the better question is why did it not remain part of the uk? you could argue there was no colonialism here and still having it would have assuredly made them an upcoming superpower this century, due to key position between china and usa


brits are fucking dumb

Australia was discovered by the Dutch, they called it Nieuw Holland, but never established a permanent settlement. The British were the first to discover it was a continent and it's true shape. The French had plans to establish a colony รก la New France, on the land, but they stalled for too long and the British got cracking on it. Cue the Napoleonic wars and Britain destroying the world's navies, and the entire pie of Australia was Britain's and Britain's alone.

Other Euros did try to colonise Australia, but Britain secured total naval supremacy over all the world, making Australia their sole domain.

Portuguese and Spaniards were the first wave, and we brought back better crops and made all the first timer mistakes.

Britain (and Holland and France) went during the second wave, with a lot more population. That helped colonise a lot more easily.

Keep in mind that Iberia had a lot less population, and a very different goal in mind: to get to India and collect riches, not colonise for the sake of expanding their territory. Even the religion expansion thing was mostly a project of pride, we didn't seek to control populations, but to spread christianity in order to be the pope's favourite.

>Australia was discovered by the Dutch
The Portuguese, actually. We settled in Timor instead because we wanted trade, and we had found that West Australia was just a big desert, but there are evidences of Portuguese settlements prior to the Dutch.

Canada as well. We went through a phase of sending a ship in every direction and coming back, which is how we mapped currents (Continental shapes + Coriolis effect + Moon Tides)

So poortugal have always fucked up.

Nobody else wanted a desert full of poisonous wildlife.

WE WUZ EXPLORERS N DISCOVER AUSTRALIA N SHIEET

It's a big desert shithole

Emu is a Portuguese word.

We're one of those small teams that somehow ends up on the big league. Sure we didn't win anything, but it was a miracle we even go there.

Why didn't Prussia and Austria get colonies?

>not colonise for the sake of expanding their territory
Britain conquered India by mistake desu.

>owning Australia would make the UK a superpower

lol

>why didn't these countries with no naval capacity have colonies?

Doing a think

yes, their country went to shit because after they went to Africa their nobility brought many black women back but their king Henry the Navigator said if you brought a black woman you have to marry her, and that's precisely the point Portugal disappears from history books.

And that's literally the future of Europe.

Why didn't they build ships?
The Dutch probably didn't have ships at one point but they ended up discovering a lot of shit.

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Dutch were smart enough to colonize the more resource-heavy islands.

There's nothing the British found useful in Australia/NZ apart from extra farmland.

>what is Gold