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... sailed south from Portugal in 1487 , rounded the Cape of Good Hope and sailed along the south - east coast of Africa as far as the Great Fish River between Port Elizabeth and East Lon- don in 1488. He thus proved the existence of the ...
... sailed south from Portugal in 1487 , rounded the Cape of Good Hope and sailed along the south - east coast of Africa as far as the Great Fish River between Port Elizabeth and East Lon- don in 1488. He thus proved the existence of the ...
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... sailed as far south as 60 ° S . without finding any land . Then he sailed direct to Tahiti . As the Endeavour was making its way across the Pacific in a north - westerly direction towards Tahiti , Banks made the follow- ing reflections ...
... sailed as far south as 60 ° S . without finding any land . Then he sailed direct to Tahiti . As the Endeavour was making its way across the Pacific in a north - westerly direction towards Tahiti , Banks made the follow- ing reflections ...
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... sailed to the Cape of Good Hope , and from there due south to 60 ° S . ( approximately one thousand miles to the south of Australia ) and eastwards along that parallel of latitude for four months , with occasional deviations north and ...
... sailed to the Cape of Good Hope , and from there due south to 60 ° S . ( approximately one thousand miles to the south of Australia ) and eastwards along that parallel of latitude for four months , with occasional deviations north and ...
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