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... Survey Department and spent some time working for Goyder , the Surveyor - General , in the Lake Eyre region . Austin , Lake WA Named after Robert Austin , the surveyor who discovered the lake in 1854. Austin had been commissioned to ...
... Survey Department and spent some time working for Goyder , the Surveyor - General , in the Lake Eyre region . Austin , Lake WA Named after Robert Austin , the surveyor who discovered the lake in 1854. Austin had been commissioned to ...
Page 99
... Surveyor - General of Tasmania , George Frank- land , named the beach after himself in 1828. He was a noted explorer , botanist , and artist . Frankland , Mount WA In a survey in 1838 T. B. Wilson wrote that he had seen ' three ...
... Surveyor - General of Tasmania , George Frank- land , named the beach after himself in 1828. He was a noted explorer , botanist , and artist . Frankland , Mount WA In a survey in 1838 T. B. Wilson wrote that he had seen ' three ...
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... Surveyor - General of South Australia . Goyder's Line of Rainfall was an important pronouncement , for it showed the limits where wheat could be grown . It was drawn in 1865 when he was sent to survey the country after a disastrous ...
... Surveyor - General of South Australia . Goyder's Line of Rainfall was an important pronouncement , for it showed the limits where wheat could be grown . It was drawn in 1865 when he was sent to survey the country after a disastrous ...
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Aboriginal name Aboriginal word Adelaide Bass Bathurst birthplace Brisbane called Camp Captain Cook coast Colonial command corruption Cove Creek d'Entrecasteaux Dalrymple Discovered and named discovery district Duke Duyfken E. J. Eyre Earl early settler Ernest Giles expedition explorer Fitzroy George gold Goulburn Governor Macquarie Harbour Henry Hill Island Q James John Oxley Kangaroo known Lady Nelson Lake later Leichhardt Lieut Lieut-Governor Lord Matthew Flinders McDouall Stuart meaning Moreton Mount NSW Mount Q Murray River name was given Named by Captain Named by Flinders Named by Governor Nicolas Baudin NSW Aboriginal NSW Named NT Named origin P. P. King Peak Peninsula Plains probably Q Aboriginal Q Discovered Queensland River NSW River Q Named river was discovered rock Scotland settlement South Australia South Wales station Strait survey surveyor Surveyor-General Swamp Sydney T. L. Mitchell Tasman Tasmania Thomas town township tree vessel Victoria water hole Western Australia William wrote