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... west coast only of the peninsula is shown , the east coast region is blank . Meanwhile the Arnhem , commanded then by Colster , had been driven by east winds across the Gulf of Carpentaria to the eastern end of Arnhem Land . The ...
... west coast only of the peninsula is shown , the east coast region is blank . Meanwhile the Arnhem , commanded then by Colster , had been driven by east winds across the Gulf of Carpentaria to the eastern end of Arnhem Land . The ...
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... west coast of Cape York Peninsula following its line westward or southward to decide " once for all " whether this land was separated from the unknown south land . If a channel were found at the base of the Gulf of Carpentaria he was to ...
... west coast of Cape York Peninsula following its line westward or southward to decide " once for all " whether this land was separated from the unknown south land . If a channel were found at the base of the Gulf of Carpentaria he was to ...
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... Western Aus- tralia and Southern Australia or between the former and the Northern coast . A descent to the south from the head of the Victoria would strike the desert sufficiently to the westward of where I was to justify a hope of a ...
... Western Aus- tralia and Southern Australia or between the former and the Northern coast . A descent to the south from the head of the Victoria would strike the desert sufficiently to the westward of where I was to justify a hope of a ...
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