Estonian Australians

The largest Estonia-born community in Australia is in the state of New South Wales, with 4,265 people.

[1] From 1940 to 1944, more than 70,000 Estonians fled to the West due to the Soviet and German occupations.

[2] The first voyage under Arthur Calwell's Displaced Persons immigration program, that of the USS General Stuart Heintzelman in 1947,[3] was specially chosen to be all from Baltic nations, all single, many blond and blue-eyed, in order to appeal to the Australian public.

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