Dutch diaspora Pitrufquén, Faja Maisan and around Temuco. Dutch migrant settlers in search of a better life started arriving in Suriname (previously known as Dutch Guiana) in the 19th century with the "boeroes" (not to be confused with the South African "Boeren"), farmers arriving from the Dutch provinces of Gelderland and Groningen. Many Dutch settlers left Suriname after independence in 1975. Furthermore, the Surinamese ethnic group Creoles, persons of mixed African-European ancestry, are partially of Dutch descent. Although the Dutch were the first Europeans to reach Australia, they have never made a great impact as a group of settlers. At the time
French Guiana the population) are the Arawak, Carib, Emerillon (now called the Teko), Galibi (now called the Kaliña), Palikur, Wayampi and Wayana. As of the late 1990s, there was evidence of an uncontacted group of Wayampi. The dominant religion of French Guiana is Roman Catholicism; the Maroons and some Amerindian peoples maintain their own religions. The Hmong people are also largely Catholic owing to the influence of missionaries who helped bring them to French Guiana. The total fertility rate in French Guiana has remained high and is today considerably higher than that of metropolitan France, as well as most of the other