Old?

When you come from the New World to Europe you get used to the fact that everything around you is older: 12th century villages, 18th Century cannons and taunts like "your house is older than your country" (even though Australia was first settled 40000 years ago and the last settlement of Neanderthal Man was in Portugal 30000 years ago). Instead the surprise comes when something "modern" or everyday has more history than settlement in Australia. Today the survey mark we were looking for was established in 1803. That's 24 years before Perth were settled. Hmmmm.