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... region that could be found anywhere on the earth . The inhabitants , too , are the most wretched and the poorest creatures that I have ever seen . " In a contemporary map based on his report , the name Nova Guinea is placed on the whole ...
... region that could be found anywhere on the earth . The inhabitants , too , are the most wretched and the poorest creatures that I have ever seen . " In a contemporary map based on his report , the name Nova Guinea is placed on the whole ...
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... region beyond to which all our sublimest aspirations tend and where all our holiest desires may be satisfied . Stokes named this region " The Plains of Promise " . This poetical eulogy and the description of the Victoria River in ...
... region beyond to which all our sublimest aspirations tend and where all our holiest desires may be satisfied . Stokes named this region " The Plains of Promise " . This poetical eulogy and the description of the Victoria River in ...
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... region . Warburton had done something else . Several times in this record it has been mentioned that a traverse from Sturt's last point on Eyre Creek to Gregory's last point on Sturt Creek was contemplated . War- burton had now covered ...
... region . Warburton had done something else . Several times in this record it has been mentioned that a traverse from Sturt's last point on Eyre Creek to Gregory's last point on Sturt Creek was contemplated . War- burton had now covered ...
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