Charles Sturt and other early Australian explorers believed an inland sea existed because of the unusual behaviour of the rivers. Most rivers flow towards the coastline. However, the rivers of New South Wales on the western side of the Great Dividing Range all flowed away from the coast. The logical deduction was that they flowed to an inland sea. It was Charles Sturt who discovered that so many of the rivers flowed to tributaries of the Murray River, which then took almost a 90 degree turn south to the Southern Ocean. Although Sturt's journey down the Murray proved that the river system flowed to the southern coast, Sturt still remained convinced for most of his life that Australia's interior should hold an inland sea. After all, the other major continents had inland seas. In essence, Australia does - Lake Eyre - but not a permanent inland sea like the Great lakes of North America.
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Sturt Plain is named after explorer Charles Sturt.
Sturt Stony Desert is in Australia. It is a large gibber plain, located in the northeast of the state of South Australia, and covering around 30,000 square kilometres.
When Charles Sturt travelled along the Murray, he passed through much thick bushland, with tall river redgums and swamp gums, wattles and eucalypts. The land was flat and featureless, apart from the dense bushland.When Sturt made his journey into Australia's interior, he passed through dry, arid, stony desert, or gibber plain (hence the name: Sturt Stony Desert).
Sturt crossed what is now known as Sturt's Stony Desert in 1845.
Captain Charles Sturt found the Sturt Desert Pea in 1844.
The names of Charles Sturt's parents were Thomas Lennox Napier Sturt and Jeanette Sturt.
Captain Charles Sturt found the Sturt Desert Pea in 1844.
charles sturt was a explorer
Charles Napier Sturt.
Humphrey Sturt was born in 1725.
Humphrey Sturt died in 1786.
Michael Sturt was born in 1941.