What did James Cook and Charles Sturt and Edward John Eyre discover?

Answer 1

Three different people: many different discoveries. James Cook: * The Hawaiian Islands * Cook was the first to sight and chart Australia's east coast, but he did not discover Australia * Cook was the first to circumnavigate New Zealand, but he did not discover it Charles Sturt: * Sturt discovered that the Murrumbidgee River flows into the Murray River * He discovered that the Darling River flows into the Murray * He discovered that the Murray flows to the southern coast * He explored and discovered parts of what is now called the Simpson Desert Edward Eyre:* Eyre discovered Lake Hindmarsh and Mount Remarkable in South Australia * He discovered excellent countryside just north of Adelaide and rich, alluvial soil around what is now Hutt River * Eyre was the first to make the crossing from South Australia's coast to Albany in Western Australia: in doing so, he discovered what the interior of Australia and the Nullarbor Plain looked like