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Augustus Charles Gregory explored:

  • The region around the Gascoyne River
  • Murchison River
  • Champion Bay and the region around Geraldton
  • Victoria River and Sturt's Creek, a journey of some 480km
  • Elsey, Roper and MacArthur Rivers
  • Crossed and named the Leichhardt River
  • Burdekin, Fitzroy and Burnett Rivers

Gregory also led an expedition to search for missing explorer Ludwig Leichhardt. On this journey, he headed west from Juandah Station, crossed the Warrego and Barcoo Rivers but was forced by drought to abandon the search and travel south to Adelaide. He did, however, help mark out the southern boundary of Queensland.

Gregory also proved once and for all that Eyre's theory of the great inland horseshoe shaped lake was not true, and that the lake was a series of saltpans.

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