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Page 158
... crossed the Finke , passed Chambers Pillar , passed Brinkley's Bluff and Mount Hay , crossed the Rey- nolds Range and reached Central Mount Stuart . Here he made this entry in his journal : Today I find from my observation . . . that I ...
... crossed the Finke , passed Chambers Pillar , passed Brinkley's Bluff and Mount Hay , crossed the Rey- nolds Range and reached Central Mount Stuart . Here he made this entry in his journal : Today I find from my observation . . . that I ...
Page 162
... crossed north - west to Purdie's Ponds , and thence up the Strangways River to the Roper River , of which area he said : " This is certainly the finest country I have seen in Australia . " On this last section of the journey he had crossed ...
... crossed north - west to Purdie's Ponds , and thence up the Strangways River to the Roper River , of which area he said : " This is certainly the finest country I have seen in Australia . " On this last section of the journey he had crossed ...
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... crossing . The next landmark was One Tree , seven miles away , an isolated tree in the plains . Before we reached it we began to cross gutters of running water , and beyond it the plain was a maze of gutters . We crossed a dozen in the ...
... crossing . The next landmark was One Tree , seven miles away , an isolated tree in the plains . Before we reached it we began to cross gutters of running water , and beyond it the plain was a maze of gutters . We crossed a dozen in 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