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... southern end of the Gulf of Carpentaria was still unknown , and the myth of ... continent , and following the arrival in Java of the survivors of an English ... continent to the north ; their instruc- tions ran : ... endeavour to enter ...
... southern end of the Gulf of Carpentaria was still unknown , and the myth of ... continent , and following the arrival in Java of the survivors of an English ... continent to the north ; their instruc- tions ran : ... endeavour to enter ...
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... southern continent . As has been recorded above , the return route had been left to Cook's discretion . The considerations are recorded at some length in the journal of Sir Joseph Banks : Having now intirely circumnavigated New Zealand ...
... southern continent . As has been recorded above , the return route had been left to Cook's discretion . The considerations are recorded at some length in the journal of Sir Joseph Banks : Having now intirely circumnavigated New Zealand ...
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... southern continent . . . . ... Happily , the period was arrived in Britain for the execution of the most important scientific designs . . . . Our present sovereign had already distinguished his reign by his patronage of science and ...
... southern continent . . . . ... Happily , the period was arrived in Britain for the execution of the most important scientific designs . . . . Our present sovereign had already distinguished his reign by his patronage of science 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