Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Swedish Australians are Australians with Swedish heritage, most often related to the large groups of immigrants from Sweden in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. The 2006 census showed 30,375 who claimed Swedish Ancestry. Most Swedish Australians are Lutherans affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church or Methodists. A Swede may have been the first European to land in some spots on the Australian coast. Swedish botanist Daniel Solander and Britain''s Sir Joseph Banks documented the flora and fauna of Australia on Captain James Cook''s 1770 expedition to Australia. King Gustaf III authorized 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.