Estonian Australians

{{Short description|Ethnic group in Australia}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}}

{{Use Australian English|date=January 2018}}

{{Infobox ethnic group

| group = Estonian Australians

| native_name = {{nativename|et|Eestlased Austraalias}}

| population = 2,665 (by birth, 2021 Census){{cite web|url=https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/people-and-communities/cultural-diversity-census/2021#data-download|title=Cultural diversity: Census, 2021 - Australian Bureau of Statistics|date=12 January 2022 |access-date=7 March 2024}}
11,598 (by ancestry, 2021 Census)

| popplace = Estonian Ancestry by state or territory

| region1 = {{flag|New South Wales}}

| pop1 = 4,265

| ref1 =

| region2 = {{flag|Victoria}}

| pop2 = 2,408

| ref2 =

| region3 = {{flag|Queensland}}

| pop3 = 1,916

| ref3 =

| region4 = {{flag|Western Australia}}

| pop4 = 1,374

| ref4 =

| languages = Australian English{{·}}Estonian

| religions = Christianity (Predominantly Lutheranism)

| related = Finnish Australians, Estonian Americans

}}

Estonian Australians ({{langx|et|Eestlased Austraalias}}) refers to Australian citizens of Estonian descent or Estonia-born persons who reside in Australia. According to the 2021 Census, there were 11,598 people of Estonian descent in Australia and 2,665 Estonia-born people residing in the country at the moment of the census, having a increase of21 per cent compared to the 2016 Census. The largest Estonia-born community in Australia is in the state of New South Wales, with 4,265 people.

From 1940 to 1944, more than 70,000 Estonians fled to the West due to the Soviet and German occupations. Many settled in Australia.{{cite web|url=http://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/ournewhome/fleeing/|title=Our new home: Estonian-Australian stories|work=migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au|date=2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070905214018/http://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/ournewhome/fleeing/|archive-date=5 September 2007}} The first voyage under Arthur Calwell's Displaced Persons immigration program, that of the USS General Stuart Heintzelman in 1947,{{cite web|url=http://www.fifthfleet.net/pb/wp_a74ae2df/wp_a74ae2df.html|title=First of the Fifth Fleet|access-date=22 Feb 2017}} was specially chosen to be all from Baltic nations, all single, many blond and blue-eyed, in order to appeal to the Australian public.J. Franklin, [http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/calwellACHSconf09.pdf Calwell, Catholicism and the origins of multicultural Australia], Proc. of the Australian Catholic Historical Society 2009 Conference, 42-54. Of the 843 immigrants on the Heintzelman, 142 were Estonian.{{cite web|url=http://www.immigrantships.net/v10/1900v10/generalstuartheintzelman19471128_01.html|title=Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild: USAT General Stuart Heintzelman|access-date=27 Feb 2017}}