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... Bligh , who had been master on the Resolution on Cook's last voyage , left England in December 1787 in the Bounty on ... Bligh's Passage to the south of Cook's Providential Channel , just to the east of Cape Weymouth . Keeping a ...
... Bligh , who had been master on the Resolution on Cook's last voyage , left England in December 1787 in the Bounty on ... Bligh's Passage to the south of Cook's Providential Channel , just to the east of Cape Weymouth . Keeping a ...
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... Bligh planted seven fruit trees 1792. " These inscriptions were seen in 1792 by the second French expedition in search of La Pérouse . Before leaving this region , Bligh sailed to the head of Storm Bay , again sighting Mount Wellington ...
... Bligh planted seven fruit trees 1792. " These inscriptions were seen in 1792 by the second French expedition in search of La Pérouse . Before leaving this region , Bligh sailed to the head of Storm Bay , again sighting Mount Wellington ...
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... Bligh's route , for they could not have had knowledge of the passage he had found ; but whereas Bligh had taken nineteen days , Bampton and Alt spent seventy - two days finding their way through these dangerous waters . To complete this ...
... Bligh's route , for they could not have had knowledge of the passage he had found ; but whereas Bligh had taken nineteen days , Bampton and Alt spent seventy - two days finding their way through these dangerous waters . To complete this ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I The Early Centuries of Ignorance I | 1 |
The Dutch Discovery of Australia 127 | 12 |
British Navigators | 28 |
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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 eastward England examined expedition exploration Flinders followed Giles Governor Gregory's Gulf of Carpentaria headwaters Holland hope Hume hundred miles inland sea interior islands Java journal journey King Lachlan Lake Eyre Lake Gairdner Lake Torrens land large river latitude Leichhardt London Macquarie Macquarie River Melbourne Mitchell Mount mountains Murchison Murray Murrumbidgee navigation north-east north-west northern northward Ocean overland Oxley Oxley's party passage Perth plains Port Essington reached region returned route sailed Scale in Miles settlement ship South Australia South Wales south-west southward Spencer Gulf spinifex Stokes Strait stream Sturt survey Sydney Tasman Terra Australis thence tracks travelled unknown Victoria River voyage Warburton west coast Western Australia western coast westward Zealand