Aboriginal people begin documenting first contact with Europeans.
Indigenous rock art from the Top End depicts different types of ships and guns and even a picture of a monkey sitting in a tree, most likely during the Portuguese and Dutch expeditions.
In (Wellington Range) north-west Arnhem Land, lies Djulirri rock shelter, belonging to the Manganawarl and Kuwindjil people.
It’s an encyclopaedia of ancient life.
There are more than 3,000 artworks here, with more recent techniques sitting alongside images that are tens of thousands of years old, capturing the continuation of the Manganawarl and Kuwindjil culture.
A painting of a European sailing ship sits on top of a totem painting created hundreds of years earlier.