Danish Australians are

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ancestry. The majority of these people are part of the Danish diaspora.

History of immigration

There was some Danish immigration at the time of the

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. It was estimated that there were 1,000 Danes on the Victorian goldfields. Danish immigrants had a significant effect on the Australian dairy industry from the 1880s, in particular establishing and managing butter factories.

Danes in Tasmania

During the 1870s, a number of East Prussian and Danish Lutherans arrived in Tasmania. Most of them settled in the farming district of Bismarck, attracted by the cheap land and an abundance of clean water. The area was declared a town in 1881. Lutheranism was very slow to establish in Tasmania. Due to the absence of a Lutheran church, some of the Germans in Bismarck joined the

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, which arrived in the region in 1889. A Lutheran church was finally opened in Hobart on 11 August 1871 and remains active today but none was ever built in Bismarck.

Post-war migration

There was little emigration from Denmark to Australia in the first half of the twentieth century: in 1901, Australia had a population of 6,281 people who had been born in Denmark; in 1947, that number had slackened to 2,759. At both counts, the population was approximately 75% male. Danish men married women of other ethnicities in Australia, which made it harder for the community to maintain its identity. Danish citizens were within the scope of Australia's Post-war immigration scheme. From a population of 2,954 Danish Australians in 1954, there were 7,911 Danes living in Australia in 1981. Masculinity ratios were healthier, with 58% of these being males. At the 2006 Census, 8,963 Australian residents declared they were born in

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. In addition, 50,413 Australian residents claimed Danish ancestry, either singularly or with another ancestry.

Culture

There is a Danish Australian Cultural Society. The Australian Danish community has been written about in books. The danish

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Notable Danish Australians

References

External links

Danish Australian Cultural Society
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