Swedish Australians () are

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with Swedish ancestry, most often related to the large groups of immigrants from

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. The 2011 Census showed 34,029 people who claimed Swedish ancestry, having an increase compared to those 30,375 in 2006. Most Swedish Australians are Lutherans affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church. They form the largest Scandinavian minority in Australia.

History

Swedish botanist

Daniel Solander Daniel Carlsson Solander or Daniel Charles Solander (19 February 1733 – 13 May 1782) was a Sweden, Swedish naturalist and an Apostles of Linnaeus, apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Solander was the first university-educated scientist to set foot o ...

(the first university-educated person to step on the Australian ground) and Britain's Sir

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documented the flora and fauna of Australia on Captain

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's 1770 expedition to Australia.

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Gustav III of Sweden Gustav III (29 March 1792), also called ''Gustavus III'', was King of Sweden from 1771 until his assassination in 1792. He was the eldest son of King Adolf Frederick and Queen Louisa Ulrika of Sweden. Gustav was a vocal opponent of what he s ...

authorised the founding of a Swedish settlement in Western Australia in November 1786, but the outbreak of war with Russia the following year prevented this from taking place. The Swedish immigrants that arrived in recent decades settled mostly in the suburbs of

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and

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.Emmerson, Mar
"Too remote, too primitive and too expensive: Scandinavian settlers in colonial Queensland"
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Notable Swedish Australians

* Daniel Amalm * Johan Anderson * Elise Archer * Mikael Borglund * Caroline Johansson * Gordon Cheng (Chinese of Swedish-origin mother) *

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* Jack Lindwall *

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* Claes Loberg * Kris Massie (Australian rules footballer) * Dave Nilsson * Kjell Nilsson * Hulda Olsson wife of Thomas Wardle, on a trip to Sweden Thomas got the idea to his Tom the Cheap-stores. * George Petersen *

Kerryn Phelps Kerryn Lyndel Phelps (born 14 December 1957) is an Australian medical practitioner, public health and civil rights advocate, medical educator and former politician. She was the first woman and first openly LGBT person to be elected president o ...

Peter Phelps Peter Phelps (born 20 September 1960 in Sydney) is an Australian actor, singer and writer. He is notable for his role as Trevor Cole in ''Baywatch''. Phelps is also known for his roles in the internationally successful Australian series '' Son ...

* Hugo William Du Rietz, was a pioneer gold miner and architect in Gympie, Queensland, Australia. He was the architect of many heritage-listed buildings in Gympie * Charles Rosenthal * Liv Hewson

References

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History

Notable Swedish Australians

See also

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