New Colony Proposals
There were proposals for new colonies in the 19th century that did not come about. North Australia was briefly a colony between February and December 1846. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society published Considerations on the Political Geography and Geographical Nomenclature of Australia in 1838, in which the following divisions were proposed:
- Dampieria in northwestern Australia.
- Queen Victoria in southwestern Australia (not to be confused with the modern Victoria).
- Tasmania in Western Australia (not to be confused with the modern Tasmania).
- Nuytsland near the Nullarbor Plain.
- Carpentaria south of the Gulf of Carpentaria.
- Flindersland in south central Australia.
- Torresia in northern Queensland.
- Cooksland centred around Brisbane.
- Guelphia in southeastern Australia.
- Van Diemen's Land in modern day Tasmania.
These proposed states were geometric divisions of the continent, and did not take into account soil fertility, aridity or population. This meant that central and western Australia were divided into several states, despite their low populations both then and now.
There was also a proposal in 1857 for the "Seven United Provinces of Eastern Australia" with separate provinces of Flinders Land, Leicharts (sic) Land (taken from the name of Ludwig Leichhardt) and Cooks Land in modern day Queensland (also named from James Cook).
Read more about this topic: Proposals For New Australian States
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