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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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