Contacts?
If the first Europeans to encounter the Australian continent were acting on information received and speculation about Terra Australis Incognita based on rumour and gossip, the next question is obvious.
Where did the rumour and gossip originate?
The answer is obvious for most of those who approached Australia's shores to investigate those rumours and "make discovery" of new lands.
It came from seafarers in ports around the Indonesian archipelago and the Strait of Malacca, awaiting the changes of monsoon that would deliver them back to their homelands.
