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... plains of the interior and a good port , the country was too rugged and broken for any route to be practicable . In 1820 Throsby reported that he had found , in December of the previous year , a practicable route from Bong Bong over the ...
... plains of the interior and a good port , the country was too rugged and broken for any route to be practicable . In 1820 Throsby reported that he had found , in December of the previous year , a practicable route from Bong Bong over the ...
Page 87
... Plains , which are situated at a distance of about one hundred miles from Newcastle in a north- west direction to within about half - a - degree of the Brisbane . It appears that from the Liverpool Plains the country through which Mr ...
... Plains , which are situated at a distance of about one hundred miles from Newcastle in a north- west direction to within about half - a - degree of the Brisbane . It appears that from the Liverpool Plains the country through which Mr ...
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... plains . Before we reached it we began to cross gutters of running water , and beyond it the plain was a maze of gutters . We crossed a dozen in the next five miles . They were from ten to thirty feet across , and running full , the ...
... plains . Before we reached it we began to cross gutters of running water , and beyond it the plain was a maze of gutters . We crossed a dozen in the next five miles . They were from ten to thirty feet across , and running full , the ...
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