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Page 149
... Cooper Creek . He did this and set at rest completely the question left undecided by both Mitchell and Kennedy . He followed Cooper Creek to the Strzelecki junction , then followed the latter creek down its full length to its discharge ...
... Cooper Creek . He did this and set at rest completely the question left undecided by both Mitchell and Kennedy . He followed Cooper Creek to the Strzelecki junction , then followed the latter creek down its full length to its discharge ...
Page 167
... Cooper Creek , having abandoned their journey down Strzelecki Creek . Wills had kept a journal which was found with his body : this , together with the inexpert testimony of King , is the only information of the events during that ...
... Cooper Creek , having abandoned their journey down Strzelecki Creek . Wills had kept a journal which was found with his body : this , together with the inexpert testimony of King , is the only information of the events during that ...
Page 168
... Cooper Creek on two separate journeys , returning the second time to Adelaide instead of going straight to Melbourne . On the first journey he found and buried the bodies of Burke and Wills , and rescued King who was living with the ...
... Cooper Creek on two separate journeys , returning the second time to Adelaide instead of going straight to Melbourne . On the first journey he found and buried the bodies of Burke and Wills , and rescued King who was living with the ...
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