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... Gregory's finding a practicable well - watered route from the Barkly Tableland to the settled districts of Queensland and New South Wales through Blackall . A route exists today but Gregory did not find it and it is not suf- ficiently ...
... Gregory's finding a practicable well - watered route from the Barkly Tableland to the settled districts of Queensland and New South Wales through Blackall . A route exists today but Gregory did not find it and it is not suf- ficiently ...
Page 165
... Gregory's , down the Victoria [ Barcoo ] , on the east . To this object the Committee wishes you to devote your energies in the first instance ; but should you determine the impracticability of this route you are desired to turn ...
... Gregory's , down the Victoria [ Barcoo ] , on the east . To this object the Committee wishes you to devote your energies in the first instance ; but should you determine the impracticability of this route you are desired to turn ...
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... Gregory's journey down Sturt Creek in 1856 and of F. T. Gregory's journey beyond the headwaters of the Oakover River in 1861 ; and he confirmed their verdict that the desert extended north - west to these points . By this journey it had ...
... Gregory's journey down Sturt Creek in 1856 and of F. T. Gregory's journey beyond the headwaters of the Oakover River in 1861 ; and he confirmed their verdict that the desert extended north - west to these points . By this journey it had ...
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