The first permanent settlement in the area was the «Tallygaroopna» sheep station, established in the early 1840s. (en.wikipedia.org)
Today, Murray Cox, a computational biologist at New Zealand's Massey University, says a scenario like this may describe the murky origins of the first permanent settlements on Madagascar, home to about 22 million people today. (discovermagazine.com)
In 1652 the Dutch established the first permanent settlement in Cape Town. (scientificamerican.com)