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... northern extreme to the southward ) , constituted those hills the termination of the island of South Australia , for such I imagine it once to have been . In his account of this expedition , published in 1845 , Eyre wrote this summary ...
... northern extreme to the southward ) , constituted those hills the termination of the island of South Australia , for such I imagine it once to have been . In his account of this expedition , published in 1845 , Eyre wrote this summary ...
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... northern and western shores ; but they will , I believe , be found to be a mere fringe surrounding a widespread Sahara . In 1869 a very circumstantial report was received in Perth of an attack on white men years earlier , and the ...
... northern and western shores ; but they will , I believe , be found to be a mere fringe surrounding a widespread Sahara . In 1869 a very circumstantial report was received in Perth of an attack on white men years earlier , and the ...
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... northern parts of Western Australia . Travelling by sea to Nickol Bay he travelled overland , following the coast nearly to Beagle Bay , and thence going to the mouth of the Fitzroy River at the base of King Sound . He followed the ...
... northern parts of Western Australia . Travelling by sea to Nickol Bay he travelled overland , following the coast nearly to Beagle Bay , and thence going to the mouth of the Fitzroy River at the base of King Sound . He followed the ...
Contents
The Dutch Discovery of Australia | 12 |
British Navigators | 28 |
The First Years of the Colony | 47 |
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The Inland Sea and the Great River: The Story of Australian Exploration John Howard Lidgett Cumpston No preview available - 1964 |
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A. C. Gregory Adelaide Archipelago Bathurst Bligh boats Brisbane Cape York coast of Australia Colonial Office Cook Cooper Creek course crossed Cunningham Dampier Darling desert Diemen's discovered discovery Dividing Range Dutch east eastern coast eastward England examined expedition exploration Fitzroy Flinders followed Forrest Giles Governor Gregory's Gulf of Carpentaria headwaters Holland hope Hume hundred miles inland sea interior islands Java journal journey Lachlan Lake Eyre Lake Gairdner Lake Torrens latitude Leichhardt London Macquarie Macquarie River Melbourne Mitchell Mount mountains Murchison Murray Murrumbidgee navigation north-east north-west northern northward Nova Guinea Ocean overland Oxley Oxley's party passage Perth plains Port Essington reached region returned route sailed settlement ship South Australia south land South Wales south-west southward Spencer Gulf spinifex Stokes stream Sturt survey Sydney Tasman Terra Australis thence tracks travelled unknown vast Victoria River voyage Warburton west coast Western Australia westward Zealand