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Name: Jack Kirkland

represents; Australia

age: 409, (place) 20 (human)

brief personality: Jack is a friendly person, who likes to do things with groups, and likes friendly people. Jack is a person who can only be described as insane, for example, jumping off a second story balcony, without his leg, into a frozen pool. He has a strange tendency to do things that almost literally nobody else would ever even attempt. Jack has a terrible habit of never wanting to back down from challenges, but he will if the victim of said challenge doesn’t want it to happen. Jack likes to wear hawaiian styled shirts, as well as his soccer Jersey. Jack is an excellent swimmer, and he often times would compete (same thing with soccer) but now that he has no leg, he can’t participate. Jack has developed a liking for movies, but he will forever remain confused about how video games work, and will refuse to play them. Jack takes anybody saying anything negative about him as a personal challenge.

brief physical description: Jack is quite tall, with messy hair. His hair is Brown, and two curls stick up. Jack has green eyes, fair skin, and is quite tall. Jack, as everyone knows at this point, has lost his right leg from the knee down. Jack will always be wearing shorts, due to his leg, but can be seen wearing hawaiian shirts, Soccer Jerseys, or even just plain old T-Shirts. Jack has an adhesive band aid across his nose covering up a cut he got in a fight. Jack will wear pajamas around the house when he is feeling lazy, and he will destroy most things by accident.

brief history: The first recorded European sighting of the Australian mainland, and the first recorded European landfall on the Australian continent, are attributed to the Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon. He sighted the coast of Cape York Peninsula in early 1606, and made landfall on 26 February at the Pennefather River near the modern town of Weipa on Cape York.[37] The Dutch charted the whole of the western and northern coastlines and named the island continent "New Holland" during the 17th century, but made no attempt at settlement.[37] William Dampier, an English explorer and privateer, landed on the north-west coast of New Holland in 1688 and again in 1699 on a return trip.[38] In 1770, James Cook sailed along and mapped the east coast, which he named New South Wales and claimed for Great Britain.[39] With the loss of its American colonies in 1783, the British Government sent a fleet of ships, the "First Fleet", under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip, to establish a new penal colony in New South Wales. A camp was set up and the flag raised at Sydney Cove, Port Jackson, on 26 January 1788,[15] a date which became Australia's national day, Australia Day, although the British Crown Colony of New South Wales was not formally promulgated until 7 February 1788. The first settlement led to the foundation of Sydney, and the exploration and settlement of other regions.

Tasmania's Port Arthur penal settlement is one of eleven UNESCO World Heritage-listed Australian Convict Sites.
A British settlement was established in Van Diemen's Land, now known as Tasmania, in 1803, and it became a separate colony in 1825.[40] The United Kingdom formally claimed the western part of Western Australia (the Swan River Colony) in 1828.[41] Separate colonies were carved from parts of New South Wales: South Australia in 1836, Victoria in 1851, and Queensland in 1859.[42] The Northern Territory was founded in 1911 when it was excised from South Australia.[43] South Australia was founded as a "free province"—it was never a penal colony.[44] Victoria and Western Australia were also founded "free", but later accepted transported convicts.[45][46] A campaign by the settlers of New South Wales led to the end of convict transportation to that colony; the last convict ship arrived in 1848.[47]
The indigenous population, estimated to have been between 750,000 and 1,000,000 at the time European settlement began,[48] declined for 150 years following settlement, mainly due to infectious disease.[49] A government policy of "assimilation" beginning with the Aboriginal Protection Act 1869 resulted in the removal of many Aboriginal children from their families and communities—often referred to as the Stolen Generations—a practice which may also have contributed to the decline in the indigenous population.[50]The Federal government gained the power to make laws with respect to Aborigines following the 1967 referendum.[51] Traditional ownership of land—aboriginal title—was not recognised until 1992, when the High Court case Mabo v Queensland (No 2) overturned the legal doctrine that Australia had been terra nullius ("land belonging to no one") before the European occupation.[52]


Religious affiliation: Christian, but he is accepting of every belief.

powers: none