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The Story of Australian Exploration John Howard Lidgett Cumpston. Babbage's route south of Lake Torrens and north of Lake Gairdner is the present route of the Transcontinental Railway . While Babbage was so engaged McDouall Stuart , who ...
The Story of Australian Exploration John Howard Lidgett Cumpston. Babbage's route south of Lake Torrens and north of Lake Gairdner is the present route of the Transcontinental Railway . While Babbage was so engaged McDouall Stuart , who ...
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... Lake Gairdner is part of the great bed in which the Stony Desert of Sturt will be found to terminate : if not the latter will probably be found to terminate in some inland sea or basin near it behind the Gawler Range . " And , writing ...
... Lake Gairdner is part of the great bed in which the Stony Desert of Sturt will be found to terminate : if not the latter will probably be found to terminate in some inland sea or basin near it behind the Gawler Range . " And , writing ...
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... Lake Gairdner , then to Ooldea , where he formed a depot . After scouting round north , and west as far as the Western Australian boundary , finding many salt lakes but little fresh water , he ultimately found water just to the west of ...
... Lake Gairdner , then to Ooldea , where he formed a depot . After scouting round north , and west as far as the Western Australian boundary , finding many salt lakes but little fresh water , he ultimately found water just to the west of ...
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