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... south - eastern Europe , and the fourteenth century and the first half of the fifteenth saw a long , desperate ... east coast of Africa as far as the Great Fish River between Port Elizabeth and East Lon- don in 1488. He thus proved the ...
... south - eastern Europe , and the fourteenth century and the first half of the fifteenth saw a long , desperate ... east coast of Africa as far as the Great Fish River between Port Elizabeth and East Lon- don in 1488. He thus proved the ...
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... South , south - east , right over against the last point or corner of the Isle of Sumatra on the south side of the equinoctial line lyeth the island called Java Major or Great Java , where there is a strait or passage called the Strait ...
... South , south - east , right over against the last point or corner of the Isle of Sumatra on the south side of the equinoctial line lyeth the island called Java Major or Great Java , where there is a strait or passage called the Strait ...
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... east of Stuart's route , south of Gregory's route , west of McKinlay's route , and north of Lake Eyre except for the one area , mentioned above , an area which repulsed all efforts to penetrate it until 1939 , one hundred and fifty one ...
... east of Stuart's route , south of Gregory's route , west of McKinlay's route , and north of Lake Eyre except for the one area , mentioned above , an area which repulsed all efforts to penetrate it until 1939 , one hundred and fifty one ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I The Early Centuries of Ignorance I | 1 |
The Dutch Discovery of Australia 127 | 12 |
British Navigators | 28 |
Copyright | |
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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