No. Explorer Charles Sturt returned from every one of his journeys alive. He eventually returned to England, which is where he died on 16 June 1869, aged 74.
Humphrey Sturt died in 1786.
Montague Sturt died in 1961.
Henry Sturt died in 1866.
John Sturt died in 1730.
George Sturt died in 1927.
Charles Sturt died of natural causes in England in 1869.
Lois Sturt died on September 18, 1937, in Budapest, Hungary.
Evelyn Pitfield Shirley Sturt died on 1885-02-10.
Charles Sturt's second journey was sponsored by Governor Darling who commissioned Sturt to trace the course of the Murrumbidgee River, and to see whether it joined to the Darling. This was in December 1829- February 1830. On this expedition, Sturt discovered that the Murrumbidgee River flowed into the Murray (previously named the Hume), as did the Darling.
Sturt's Desert Pea is native to the Australian outback. It is found in South Australia from the Flinders Ranges west to beyond the border with Western Australia and north into the Northern Territory, as far as Alice Springs. The Sturt Desert Pea is South Australia's floral emblem.
Captain Charles Sturt, like many explorers, usually explored on horseback and on foot. However, on his most famous and significant journey, the tracing of the Murray River, he used a whaleboat.
Charles Sturt, one of Australia's most famous explorers, suffered blindness as a result of the ordeal he underwent when he and his party had to row upstream up the fllooded Murray River, against the current, for 2000 kilometres after following the Murray River to its mouth. It was an exhausting journey that took its toll on Sturt and his men.