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... settlement ; and Phillip was instructed that , after taking proper security measures , he was to see to land culti- vation . He soon found that the glowing reports about Botany Bay were not justified and , without landing anyone , he ...
... settlement ; and Phillip was instructed that , after taking proper security measures , he was to see to land culti- vation . He soon found that the glowing reports about Botany Bay were not justified and , without landing anyone , he ...
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... settlement at Perth which was to become the colony of Western Australia . This was not connected with the work of Sturt or any land explorer before him . A settlement had already , in 1824 , been established at Brisbane directly ...
... settlement at Perth which was to become the colony of Western Australia . This was not connected with the work of Sturt or any land explorer before him . A settlement had already , in 1824 , been established at Brisbane directly ...
Page 147
... settlement , writing that : " it far surpasses Western Australia in every essential quality except climate , which ... settlement on the Victoria River , although he visualized it as a convict settlement . 66 ยท From his base camp on the ...
... settlement , writing that : " it far surpasses Western Australia in every essential quality except climate , which ... settlement on the Victoria River , although he visualized it as a convict settlement . 66 ยท From his base camp on 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