Aborigineshad lived in WA for at least forty thousand years by the time the seventeenth-century traders of theDutch East India Companybegan wrecking themselves on the west coast mid-journey to the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia), where they sought valuable spices. While some dispute rem...
Examination of a map of the region shows the proximity of these peoples to the area we are concerned with. There was significant trade and migration between the Dalmatian and Slovenian peoples with this isolated corner of Italy (or perhaps more properly "of the empire") stretching back ...