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Edward Eyre did not discover or name any rivers.
Lake Eyre was named after Edward Eyre. He was the first white person to discover it. Also the Eyre Highway is named after him, and so is the Eyre Peninsula and a tiny place called Eyre.
For this unbelievable journey Eyre was awarded the founder's gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1847.
Edward Eyre discovered lake Eyre on 27 August 1840. Lake Eyre was one of several salt lakes which blocked Eyre's attempt to cross from south to north.
Edward Eyre was an Australian explorer. He was the first to cross the Nullarbor Plain, making the first overland journey from east to west.
Edward Eyre discovered lake Eyre on 27 August 1840. Lake Eyre was one of several salt lakes which blocked Eyre's attempt to cross from south to north.
Explorer Edward Eyre discovered the Broughton River in South Australia in 1839. Eyre named it after after William Grant Broughton, the first Anglican Archbishop of Australia.
Edward John Eyre did not discover Australia. Australia was already inhabited by Indigenous peoples for thousands of years before European exploration began. Eyre was an English explorer who explored parts of Australia in the 19th century, but he was not the first European to discover the continent.
Eyre departed on his journey across the Nullarbor in November 1840, and arrived at the west coast on 7 July 1841. The journey took about 8 months.
Eyre departed on his journey across the Nullarbor in November 1840, and arrived at the west coast in July 1841. The journey took about 8 months.
Edward Eyre's journey from Streaky Bay on the west coast of South Australia to King George's Sound was a distance of about 1200 miles, or 1930 km. This does not take into account Eyre's journeys north of Adelaide.
Eyre's major journey was between Streaky Bay, on the western coast of the Eyre Peninsula, and Albany, or King George's Sound, in Western Australia. Eyre was the first to travel across the Nullarbor Plain.