ps_Who+first+discovered+Melbourne?

In 1797 George Bass was the very first European to go what is now known as the Bass Strait. The Bass Strait is a passage that runs between Melbourne and Tasmania, named after the founder George Bass. He did not go into the land now known as Melbourne but got quite close. The next person to come was John Murray in 1802, he entered port Phillip Bayas did Matthew Flinders; both men had a landmark named after them. Then in 1803 Charles Grimes was first to make contact with land and found the mouth of the Yarra River and from there hiked inland all the way to Keilor.

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