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... 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 Cape route to India . Ten years later ( 1497 ) Vasco da Gama ...
... 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 Cape route to India . Ten years later ( 1497 ) Vasco da Gama ...
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... Hope to northern Java and the Philippine Islands , thence to Cape Horn and eastwards to the Cape of Good Hope . What lay to the south of this line was unknown ; the vast land mass of Terra Australis Incognita was pos- tulated as filling ...
... Hope to northern Java and the Philippine Islands , thence to Cape Horn and eastwards to the Cape of Good Hope . What lay to the south of this line was unknown ; the vast land mass of Terra Australis Incognita was pos- tulated as filling ...
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... hope : that this expedition may be crowned with the so much wished for success , and that Mr. Oxley may be able to trace the River Lachlan to the south west coast of Australia . It is also to be sincerely wished that the Macquarie River ...
... hope : that this expedition may be crowned with the so much wished for success , and that Mr. Oxley may be able to trace the River Lachlan to the south west coast of Australia . It is also to be sincerely wished that the Macquarie River ...
Contents
The Dutch Discovery of Australia | 12 |
British Navigators | 28 |
IV | 47 |
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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 Albert River Barcoo base camp Bathurst Brisbane Burke Colonial Office continent Cooper Creek course crossed Cunningham Dampier Darling desert discovered discovery Dutch east eastern eastward examined expedition exploration Fitzroy Flinders followed Forrest geographical Giles Governor Gregory's Guinea Gulf of Carpentaria headwaters hope Hume hundred miles inland sea interior islands Java Journal journey King knowledge Lachlan Lagoon Lake Eyre Lake Gairdner Lake Torrens land large river latitude Leichhardt London Macquarie Melbourne Mitchell Mount mountains Murchison Murray Murrumbidgee navigable north-east north-west northern northward Oxley Oxley's party passage Perth plains Port Essington Queensland Range Rawlinson Range reached region returned route sailed salt settlement South Australia South Wales south-east south-west southern southward Spencer Gulf spinifex Stokes Strait stream Sturt Creek survey Sydney Tasman Terra Australis thence track travelled unknown Victoria River voyage Warburton waterless west coast Western Australia westward Zealand