Australia's Great Explorers: Tales of Tragedy and TriumphThe often harsh and unforgiving Australian landscape was a far cry from what the early colonisers were used to, and it proved a daunting obstacle to settlement. AUSTRALIA'S GREAT EXPLORERS looks at the tragedies and triumphs of men such as Wentworth and Lawson, Hume and Hovell, Burke and Wills, Leichhardt and Strzelecki as they battled to conquer the Great Diving Range, find an elusive inland sea, and traverse the length and breadth of this great country. |
Contents
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Discovering the Australian Interior | 24 |
The Search for an Inland | 30 |
Opening up Australias Pastoral Lands | 37 |
Four Years of Discovery | 43 |
From the Flinders Ranges to | 50 |
Missing in Action | 65 |
An Illfated Expedition to Australias Centre | 74 |
The First to Successfully Explore | 83 |
The Legacy of Australias Explorers | 89 |
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Aborigines Adelaide Adyna Turno April arrived back arrived in Sydney Australian explorer Baxter Blaxland Blue Mountains boat Brahe camels camp Captain Chambers Creek Charles Sturt Charley climbed coast colony continent Cooper Creek cross Australia Darling River depot Desert died Diemen's Land discovered discovery Dividing Range dray expedition party Eyre wrote Fowlers Bay George Bass Gipps Governor Gulf of Carpentaria Hamilton Hume Harry Brown head horses Hume and Hovell January John McDouall Stuart journal journey June kilograms kilometres King George’s Sound Kosciusko leave Leichhardt Macquarie Melbourne Mitchell Mitchell's months named Mount native night north-west November packhorses Port Essington Port Lincoln Port Phillip provisions Queensland reached returned to Sydney Robert O'Hara Burke Roper route Royal sandhills scrub settlers sheep ship South Australian South Wales Spencer Gulf Strzelecki Stuart named supplies surveyor Surveyor-General Sydney took travelled trip wanted waterhole Waterwitch Westernport Wylie Yass