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  • čas přidán 18. 10. 2022
  • Les follows various clues across Australia to investigate an intriguing report. According to the report, a Dutch colony was set up in Central Australia following a ship wreck on the west coast. If the stories and their dates were true, it would mean Europeans had settled in Australia 100 years before the First Fleet.
    'Bush Tucker Man: The Dutch Settlement' originally aired on the ABC in 1996.
    Cultural note: This video may contain terms or views that were acceptable within mainstream Australian culture at the time it aired, but may no longer be considered appropriate.
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  • @brucebird133
    @brucebird133 Před 9 měsíci +17

    Imagine sitting round the campfire just listening to Les' stories. Would be amazing
    Same if Mal Douglas or Jack Absalom etc were still alive.

  • @ChrissoMatthews
    @ChrissoMatthews Před rokem +58

    He’s a legend, no doubt about it………Absolutely terrific stuff!!! 😊

    • @rayjohnson1945
      @rayjohnson1945 Před rokem +2

      They bred into the native population eventually. I read once.

    • @hoilst265
      @hoilst265 Před rokem +2

      T'rrifc, I believe you meant to say...

  • @rayjohnson1945
    @rayjohnson1945 Před rokem +13

    Ben Nicker , bennynic as the aboriginal community called him. 16 years old he crossed the Tanami desert alone. In the book ,the red centre, he described a tall ship carved into a rock in Dutch. This was long ago before Alice Springs. Just the telegraph building there. Fantastic book of a tough pioneer.

  • @Neil-Aspinall
    @Neil-Aspinall Před rokem +8

    'This box of tricks is a thing called a GPS'

  • @thepartysjustbegun5557
    @thepartysjustbegun5557 Před 2 měsíci +1

    I watched this series when I was a kid and now I'm sharing them with my kids. Les the Legend lives on.

  • @robertoneil9304
    @robertoneil9304 Před 10 měsíci +9

    What an absolute legend Les is

  • @fridgemagnate7923
    @fridgemagnate7923 Před rokem +37

    Nothing more dangerous than a officer with a compass and map. Classic 😂

  • @eleonoraformatoneeszczepan8807

    Thumbs up for not having the comment section turned off.

  • @ray.shoesmith
    @ray.shoesmith Před rokem +28

    I remember watching this when it first aired and was enthralled. Years later I read about the Batavia shipwreck and how they left 2 mutineers on the mainland to fend for themselves. It's always made me wonder if there were Europeans living in Australia well before the first fleet.

    • @looking8030
      @looking8030 Před rokem +5

      Im pretty sure he’s got a episode on the Batavia or Malcom Douglas has its real interesting especially like the Egypt hieroglyphs out the back of Sydney blue mountains somewhere things like surely people have been here before Abel Tasman seen back in the day

    • @looking8030
      @looking8030 Před rokem +3

      Have you seen those or heard of the Egyptian writings? That’s interesting asf

    • @capt.bart.roberts4975
      @capt.bart.roberts4975 Před rokem +4

      Debunked. 😐

    • @theoztreecrasher2647
      @theoztreecrasher2647 Před rokem

      @@capt.bart.roberts4975 Yep. Those "Egyptian writings" are really the work of Alien Space Travelers. The ABC are going to do an interview with their local Ambassador as soon as they can show proof that they have equal rights for all fourteen sexual orientations on their homeland. 🙄😱

    • @chrisbrent7487
      @chrisbrent7487 Před rokem

      @@looking8030 The heiroglyphs have been debunked. There are hieroglyphs there are that are completely inappropriate for the period they were supposed to have been put there.

  • @warrenpitt6205
    @warrenpitt6205 Před 6 dny

    Bring this series back

  • @timrosenthal46
    @timrosenthal46 Před rokem +5

    That was fantastic ! Loving watching these series again.

  • @peredavi
    @peredavi Před rokem +1

    Fascinating. Love this series. Good on ya, mate!

  • @robertchua5229
    @robertchua5229 Před rokem +3

    16:33 Whom ever chipped that would never think that there will be more than 28K pairs of eyes looking at it. 6th Nov 2022

  • @kdjat
    @kdjat Před rokem +6

    Amazing story!

  • @Blue1Sapphire
    @Blue1Sapphire Před rokem +6

    Interesting stuff Les.. . I wonder if u ever found out more to this story. Did the Dutch in fact live here for a period and where did they live?

  • @debeerpaul
    @debeerpaul Před 6 měsíci +2

    Interesting how the Australian bush is so similar to our Bushveld in SA. Except its without the Big five. Still the spiders will suffice!

    • @hoilst265
      @hoilst265 Před 4 měsíci

      Hence the whole Bushveldt Carbineers thing...

  • @xspower8899
    @xspower8899 Před rokem +6

    Lesley got him flash motorcar , this one got him cold breeze inside aye.

  • @zane770
    @zane770 Před rokem +1

    That rock carving is stacked

  • @pufdadie
    @pufdadie Před rokem

    terrific eposide, by a living legend

  • @thescience5307
    @thescience5307 Před rokem +10

    Australia used to be a great country in 1996.

    • @niuean3000
      @niuean3000 Před rokem +2

      Australia used to be a great country before the Europeans arrived

  • @Antipodean33
    @Antipodean33 Před rokem +2

    You'd think there would've been others who made the trip who would've written about it, especially as it's an extraordinary tale. But like everything in time things disappear and are forgotten about or just lost

  • @angryres6632
    @angryres6632 Před rokem +5

    According to the article the stranded people were clothed in oxhide. The chief was an ancestor from an officer named Van Bearle (correct spelling will be Van Baarle) and they were living there for 170 years. Surely there must be evidence of that.

    • @dlovink6655
      @dlovink6655 Před rokem +1

      Yes" Van Baarle is a real Dutch last name..

  • @markissboi3583
    @markissboi3583 Před rokem +12

    Dutch ships more aborigine paintings found in QLD seaside cave 2016 the capt's hat &ship images gave it away 1600's
    1770 english ship capt cook discovers OZ nz and islands
    Who first discovered Australia? Explorer Willem Janszoon
    While Indigenous Australians have inhabited the continent for tens of thousands of years, and traded with nearby islanders, the first documented landing on Australia by a European was in 1606. The Dutch explorer Willem Janszoon landed on the western side of Cape York Peninsula and charted about 300 km of coastline.

  • @norrishude6177
    @norrishude6177 Před rokem +5

    Great Bloke, great stuff , love it. Les's alphabet had 25 letters , he never liked the H in words so he never pronounced it.

    • @Aengus42
      @Aengus42 Před rokem

      There's a few of us who use the odd H mate!

  • @DrCrabfingers
    @DrCrabfingers Před rokem +3

    What a great series...I'm loving watching these. It's an entirely plausible story. The Dutch were all over South East Asia like a rash.

  • @astrogoodvibes6164
    @astrogoodvibes6164 Před 10 měsíci +2

    A hundred and seventy one years before Nickson made his journal, the British were at war with the Dutch. I'm wondering if the British had suppressed any information about Dutch settlement in Australia in that intervening period.
    It's also curious that the Dutch had a leading role in the discovery of Terra Incognita for many years and that the first official name of Australia was New Holland.
    Perhaps this might have been that the finish of the war between Britain and Holland was in the mid 18th century, just prior to the first fleet. Naming it New Holland may have been a compensation after the truce.

  • @brentmcd12
    @brentmcd12 Před rokem

    wow! very interesting! thanks ABC ! 📹🏜️🌄🏞️🛻🤙😎

  • @richc7127
    @richc7127 Před rokem +10

    ABC should remake a series like this with todays technology. Be amazingggggg!

    • @thescience5307
      @thescience5307 Před rokem +1

      They've lost the ability to make quality content, only care for race division crap today

    • @Envy_me94
      @Envy_me94 Před rokem +3

      Todays technology? please tell me what would change, a new 4WD?

    • @2pintsofcremedementh
      @2pintsofcremedementh Před rokem +7

      @@Envy_me94 they wouldn't make it because the purple wigs would call it "racist" and "glorifying colonialism"

    • @juz882010
      @juz882010 Před 5 měsíci

      @@Envy_me94 LIDAR cameras in the helicopters

  • @maxflight777
    @maxflight777 Před rokem +1

    Compelling content !

  • @ColdPotatos
    @ColdPotatos Před rokem

    I am in love with this show, it insipred me to make my own channel haha.

  • @user-xk3fl2zl6s
    @user-xk3fl2zl6s Před 9 měsíci

    Great story

  • @brianvogt8125
    @brianvogt8125 Před rokem +5

    Having revealed Nixon's probable misuse of a sextant to determine a location, why did Les not use a sextant and try to reproduce the error?

  • @longrider42
    @longrider42 Před rokem +2

    Its possible that 160, or was it 170 ago. There was a permanent large body of water where it was supposed to be. I do wonder if maybe using a satellite to take pictures of the area, might not be what is needed. I know lots of things have been seen and found that way. It is an interesting story.

    • @gusgould4420
      @gusgould4420 Před 9 měsíci

      There’s a big lake called lake woods nearby to the area but it’s unfortunately flat there

  • @dirkkoopman174
    @dirkkoopman174 Před rokem +1

    Has anyone picked up the references in that Dutch article? DNA?

  • @Dave-ss5pk
    @Dave-ss5pk Před rokem +2

    Malcolm Douglas, Les Hiddins and the Leyland Brothers are the BEST at Australian Outback with History.👍👍👍👍

    • @simonh6371
      @simonh6371 Před rokem +1

      Jack Absalom's programmes are pretty good too.

  • @tosgem
    @tosgem Před rokem +9

    I reckon Nixon got as far as that base camp and couldn't be bothered with it all. Made up a story for the boss men and went home. That would explain why his account was so realistic, he was definitely in the country and experienced the conditions. Either that or he was messing with some bush tucker he shouldn't have, perhaps a fungal variety.

    • @FatNature
      @FatNature Před rokem

      I'd love to know his motive behind the ruse

  • @manna6618
    @manna6618 Před rokem +2

    Let's not forget the pewter plate hammered into a post on Dirk Hartog Island, north Western Australia by the Dutch way before any English had arrived proclaiming it part of the Dutch colonies...nor the Aborigines of the coastal Kimberley lands that had blonde hair and lighter skin, who told stories of trading with people in big sailships over a century before the British arrived.

    • @bossdog1480
      @bossdog1480 Před rokem +3

      Ginger and fair hair can be common in Aboriginal children. May have more to do with sun and seawater though.

    • @lucylovic
      @lucylovic Před 9 měsíci

      @bossdog1480 agree. Sun bleached. Surfer's get it too. Coastal types.

  • @sarcasmo57
    @sarcasmo57 Před rokem +1

    I wish I could go and search.

  • @lomasck
    @lomasck Před rokem +1

    Love This Guy.Aussie myself.

  • @juz882010
    @juz882010 Před 5 měsíci +1

    where is that engraving?

  • @rayjohnson1945
    @rayjohnson1945 Před rokem

    The red centre. Worth reading.

  • @janebrilly4386
    @janebrilly4386 Před rokem

    Awesome awesome awesome

  • @capt.bart.roberts4975

    That's a map, compass and a plan!

  • @stevanoutdoor
    @stevanoutdoor Před rokem +2

    Of course the Dutch were the first, or among the first, in many parts of the world. Also in Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand, South Africa, Indonesia, Brazil, the US, etc. The Brits just followed us around, outnumbered us and took over in some parts. Spanish or Portuguese in other parts. But for sure Australia has a Dutch history.

    • @ManOfTheWoods123
      @ManOfTheWoods123 Před rokem

      I feel like I've seen you before. Knife guy? I think I was looking at a Joker Canadiense in particular if that sounds familiar.

    • @lucylovic
      @lucylovic Před 9 měsíci

      But they never settled in large numbers.

  • @mattpowney741
    @mattpowney741 Před rokem +2

    I remember a book that had New Holland and Van Deimans Land.

    • @simonh6371
      @simonh6371 Před rokem +2

      That's no secret, that from 1606 onwards starting with Willem Janzsoon, Dutch ships sailing to the East Indies got blown off course and sighted Western Australia, there were 2 or 3 shipwrecks too, one where the survivors were stranded on an island off the coast of WA. They navigated more than 2 / 3rds of Australia, Tasmania and NZ. Hence names like Arnhem Land, New Zealand (after the Dutch province of Zeeland) etc. The questions is whether any of those shipwrecked survivors made it inland and established settlements and stayed for generations.

  • @conqueringlion420
    @conqueringlion420 Před rokem

    Take a shot every time Les says liekhardt

  • @badpossum440
    @badpossum440 Před měsícem

    25,14. Would passengers from a ship travel a 1000 k from the sea? More likely some where on the west coast.

  • @lesnorton3968
    @lesnorton3968 Před rokem

    i didnt know that

  • @jesusislukeskywalker4294

    it’s complicated. let’s just say i live in a suburb called “holland park” . Portuguese were here first. Brisbane was only “settled” after the Anglo Dutch Treaty 1824 . Western Australia same deal. There’s more to the story. heaps. 🤠

    • @looking8030
      @looking8030 Před rokem +1

      Dude that area is named after Julius holland who purchased the property/area back in 1865 I think we’ll I’m pretty sure

    • @markshort9098
      @markshort9098 Před rokem +4

      The Chinese might have been here long before that, my father trawled up a pile of stuff off Brisbane back in the 80s, most was smashed in the nets but a tea pot survived and it was examined by an archeologist and he said it was from the early 1200s

    • @nameless7174
      @nameless7174 Před rokem

      @@markshort9098 well geneticist’s have found the dingo originated from a dog found in Southern China.

    • @muzzleray
      @muzzleray Před rokem +1

      @@markshort9098 That's a fascinating story I would love to know more

  • @MadTrapper1
    @MadTrapper1 Před rokem +1

    Some places remain undiscovered. Not because no-one ever got there. Just that no-one made it back alive!

  • @paulthackery4082
    @paulthackery4082 Před rokem +1

    Loads of Dutch ship wrecks in the 17th century. Batavia June 1629 for instance. SO yes is possible.

  • @capt.bart.roberts4975

    That really is about as central to nowhere, as it's possible to get!

  • @kentallard8852
    @kentallard8852 Před 8 měsíci +1

    why would they move into the interior and not stay on the coast?

    • @nickmonk7945
      @nickmonk7945 Před 7 měsíci

      Looking for area with better resources? 🤷‍♂️

    • @juz882010
      @juz882010 Před 5 měsíci +1

      massive lakes like Yamma Yamma lots of birds and fish to eat.

    • @Peak_Aussieman
      @Peak_Aussieman Před 4 měsíci

      Well if you go by this what's in this episode, that would place the Dutch landing sometime in the 1610's. Now by other nation's standards, the 1610's is a fairly well documented period of history. But in Australia records are a bit dodgy prior to 1788. Now, at that time, the only people in the region, the only Europeans anyway, that could have possibly been able to set up a colony like what's described here were Dutch merchantmen, and presumably their families as well working for the Dutch East India Company in what's today Indonesia. Now, the Dutch East India Company never did set up a colony in Australia, if they did, I'd be typing in Dutch not English, so, if there were a Dutch colony, it wouldn't have been set up deliberately. The closest incident that we know of that sounds like what Lt Nixon was talking about was the wreck of the Batavia in WA. But we know what happened there, there was no permanent settlement, and the ones who survived eventually made it back to Indonesia.

  • @emmanuelborg8678
    @emmanuelborg8678 Před rokem

    Great show. I love it. Back in the early 80s there was an Australian Bush food type show not by Leslie J Hiddins but by an old white man with a big white beard. Would anyone know the name of that show please?

  • @davedunn4285
    @davedunn4285 Před rokem

    Hey Les
    Do you ever encounter snakes aka ( joe Blake’s )

  • @aloysiusjones3985
    @aloysiusjones3985 Před rokem

    That hat. 🇦🇺👍🍺🍺

  • @silverbackanimal7215
    @silverbackanimal7215 Před rokem

    What did the natives use for sunscreen ?

  • @adotholland22
    @adotholland22 Před rokem

    The Dutch man Abel Tasman explorer en .Kaptain. Tasman sea etc

  • @siyaindagulag.
    @siyaindagulag. Před rokem +2

    The question is a good 'un. Many ended up in Adelaide(my opinion)
    The Dutch who rocked up in WA, took one look at the place ,said : We can't grow dope here .
    ....and left.
    🤣

    • @simonh6371
      @simonh6371 Před rokem +1

      Actually they saw no trading opportunities where they could rip the locals off. That's more what the Dutch mentality is about rather than smoking weed.

  • @TheAlevol
    @TheAlevol Před 4 měsíci +1

    Where is that engraving of the medieval woman

  • @jesusislukeskywalker4294

    ABC you are back on my Christmas card list.. ps you production assistants are now all getting the “tricky dicky” Richard Nixon joke aren’t you. now

  • @billgoodwin8013
    @billgoodwin8013 Před rokem

    It'll be those crazy Boers again. They trekked all over the place .

  • @timvivoda5208
    @timvivoda5208 Před rokem +1

    You speak English good youl be OK Tim from Australia 🇦🇺.

  • @gerrymcdonnell6006
    @gerrymcdonnell6006 Před rokem

    I knew a guy once showed me a ball that looked like a crusher ball from a mining site, wrong!!! It was a series of balls he found while walking ahead of the dozer so as to not interfere with Aboriginal site's. Apparently the Dutch had a conflict with the indigenous peoples and fired a few deck gun shells at them, they were all over the ground,sad history but true.

  • @CrispyHulk1
    @CrispyHulk1 Před 7 měsíci

    The music supervisor really dropped the ball in this episode. So overused and distracting. One of my biggest problems with season 3

  • @silverbackanimal7215
    @silverbackanimal7215 Před rokem

    They was with Aboriginals to help them cheers

  • @potapotapotapotapotapota

    this guy is like steve irwen's cousin

    • @R00RAL
      @R00RAL Před rokem +1

      There are still some real men in this Country..

  • @antoniobarros9245
    @antoniobarros9245 Před rokem

    portugese

  • @mikebarton
    @mikebarton Před 6 měsíci

    Before any of these Europeans, and still fifty thousand years after the indigenous Australians, were people from China, what's now Indonesia, and what's now PNG.
    🤷

  • @tykat7327
    @tykat7327 Před rokem

    So naive Les. You mention Australia as a new nation referring to colonist finding Australia. Their was a nation that already existed on this continent. The Nation of the Aboriginals. 10's of thousands of years of history. But you refer to the first white man in this country. M8 this country has a history, but not considered by the white man. Just saying

    • @HorseShit35
      @HorseShit35 Před rokem +3

      Yet it wasn’t a nation of aboriginals, if anything it could have been classed as nations of aboriginals. Also he never said it didn’t have a history before white man.

    • @b.w.22
      @b.w.22 Před rokem +3

      Come on, man - you must be having a go at Les. I mean, it’s obvious the regard he has for Aboriginal Australians since he largely credits to them all of the knowledge he gained about “bush tucker” and survival practices that went into his Army publications. This is one guy who’s down with the various tribes in the north and clearly recognizes their history and place in that land - on a previous episode he highlighted campfires that were 30,000 years old. But just like there was never a “nation” of Africans, there were disparate tribes with their own customs and ways who competed against each-other.