The old shipwrecked Egyptian sailors story looks more ridiculous when you look at a map, but first could the Egyptians even get here ?
Probably not as they mainly used their boats on rivers and close to the coast in the Red Sea, there is records of them making it as far as Ceylon once and they had to call on the Phoenicians to circumnavigate the African continent.
Even if the Egyptians land hopped along the red route in the map they would have landed somewhere on the north western coastline.
Another whatif scenario would be using the Brouwer route (yellow route) which took advantage of the Roaring 40's wind that made for a quick but dangerous journey skirting the Southern Ocean would have the vessels land along the west and southern coast
To make it to the east coast along this route would be the most dangerous part of the journey especially through Bass Straight an up along the coastline, when Cook circumnavigated Australia he failed to find the straight and early maps show Tasmania connected to the continent
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Glyphs located at orange star |
The yellow route finding the mainland after surviving the roaring 40's and the treacherous southern coastline before finding a route along the east coast of NSW
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East Coast of Australia, the glyphs are located north of Sydney |
One would think at any stage before this our adventurers would have made landfall ?
Anyway lets keep being silly and we are now in Broken Bay at the mouth of the Hawkesbury River, lets now bypass any number of safe landing places and fresh water sources and navigate thru a dangerous surf and sandbar formation to enter Brisbane Water and again ignore a number of safe landing places to keep sailing into Woy Woy inlet.
Or maybe they were shipwrecked as they say and walked on foot from wherever they were and scaled the hills to reach an obscure rock cleft (red star in pic) in the middle of the thick bush, again ignoring better places to make camp and find fresh water.
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Broken Bay NSW Australia |