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John McDouall Stuart was born in Scotland on 7 September 1815. He died on 5 June 1866, aged fifty years.

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The main problems which these two explorers encountered involved the fact that they argued about almost everything.

Primarily, the men argued about who made which discoveries. They also argued about the naming of the Hume River (which Charles Sturt later named the Murray). Hovell said he named the river after Hume, while Hume claimed he named it after his father.

One of the major problems the men encountered was that several of the rivers they needed to cross were in flood that year. The men had a clever plan to cross the flooded rivers, which involved dismantling one of the carts and wrapping it in a tarpaulin, then using it as a punt, pulled by ropes across the river. As they cossed more and more rivers and were required to use the tarpaulin frequently, they argued about whether it would make each trip. After their journey was over, they even argued over whose idea it had been to make the punt.

Hume and Hovell also made miscalculations in distance and direction which resulted in them arriving at the wrong place. They were supposed to arrive at Westernport Bay, but they ended up on the wrong side of Port Phillip bay, and in fact arrived at Corio Bay.

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gregory had 3 girls and 12 boys and married to julia blaxland

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Captain Charles Sturt discovered the Darling River whilst tracing the Macquarie River.

Following the Macquarie inland, he came to a smaller river, the Bogan, which, due to the drought, was merely a series of waterholes. Sturt followed the Bogan downstream until he arrived suddenly at what he described as "a noble river", on 2 February 1829. This was the Darling, which Sturt named after Governor Darling.

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The first permanent European settlers were the Spanish, beginning settlements in the Caribbean and South America just a few years after Columbus' first voyage in 1492, and then founding the oldest city in North America, St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565. Northern Europeans came later: the English who founded Jamestown, Virginia in 1607, the French who settled Quebec in 1608, and the Dutch who founded New Amsterdam (New York City) in 1624.

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Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Wentworth departed South Creek, Sydney Cove, on 11 May 1813. On 31 May they reached Mount Blaxland, from where they could see the plains to the west. The journey took 21 days, not counting their return.

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Burke and Wills reached the tidal flats of the Gulf of Carpentaria on 11 February 1861.

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Edward Eyre had a significant effect in bridging the gap between east and west. Prior to his expedition, no one knew what lay between Adelaide and Perth. Eyre's journey paved the way for the building of a road, and later a railway, after his route was surveyed several decades later by John Forrest.

Unfortunately, Eyre also slowed development of a route between the south and the north. Due to his bad luck in striking several of the smaller salt lakes thay lay in central South Australia, he believed that a huge horseshoe-shaped salt lake lay between Adelaide and the northern coast, and his reports that it was impossible to get through influenced the direction of Australian exploration for the next two decades by preventing anyone from attempting to get through.

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Allan Cunningham, one of Australia's early explorers, was born in Wimbledon, England, in 1791 and he originally came to Australia in an attempt to cure his tuberculosis.

The Australian climate did indeed help Cunningham regain some of his health, and so he developed a real love for the country, wanting to utilise his skills as a botanist to explore and discover more of the country. He was driven by curiosity as a botanist, and a passion for his adopted country.

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The indigenous people of Australia did not assist Thomas Mitchell and his men. The Aborigines learnt from experience that Mitchell and his men were to be feared, and that they should stay away from them. On a number of occasions, Mitchell's men killed Aborigines, and at one stage even actively conducted an ambush, and subsequent massacre, of them.

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Flinders was born on 16 March 1774 in Donington, England.

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Burke and Wills did not actually "discover" anything of value on their arduous trek across Australia's inland. They travelled from Melbourne, in the south, to the Gulf of Carpentaria.

They found no new rivers and no new pasture land. Their greatest claim to fame is the unfortunate fact that they embarked upon the biggest, most expensive expedition in Australia's history, and due to Burke's impatience, it ended up the most disastrous, with the loss of three lives.

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Flinders took a sextant, compass, notepaper for observations and chart-making, pencils, food rations, barrels of water and his cat 'Trim' who was Matthew Flinders' constant companion on most of his journeys between 1799 and 1804.

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because he wanted to fight

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Lake Eyre was named after Edward Eyre. He was the first white person to discover it. Also the Eyre Highway is named after him, and so is the Eyre Peninsula and a tiny place called Eyre.

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The name "Australia" was first proposed by Matthew Flinders in the early 1800s, as part of the full name Terra Australis,meaning Southern land. The actual name "Australia" was then adopted in 1824.

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John Forrest was an Australian explorer from Western Australia. He also became the first Premier of Western Australia.

In 1869, Forrest led the search for Ludwig Leichhardt's expedition which had gone missing while travelling across Australia from east to west. This search was unsuccessful, but it gave Forrest the chance to do what he wished, which was to explore the uncharted areas of Western Australia.

In 1870, Forrest surveyed the route which Edward Eyre had taken in 1840-41 from Adelaide to Albany, across the Great Australian Bight. As the main route from eastern Australia overland to the west, he realised it needed to be surveyed so a road could be built, and later a railway.

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he bought lots of people to carry stuff and Ak-47's to murder Evans once he found good grazing land. but George Evans cam prepare and while Oxley was sleeping slit his throat. though this was not Oxley at all it was on of his men GGeorge quickly evacuated and was soon found dead in a cave. it is thought he killed himself. this is a true story.

american international explorer trust.

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In 1798 Matthew Flinders, together with George Bass, was commissioned by Governor Hunter to explore and circumnavigate Van Diemen's Land, to determine conclusively that it was an island. The two men set out in the 'Norfolk' on 7 October 1798. It was also the first time any Europeans had entered the Derwent River. The ship anchored in Risdon Cove, and Flinders described the area as "Very beautiful country, with a rich and luxuriant soil".

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Throughout his life, Blaxland was a very volatile personality, given to moods. It was, unfortunately, the nature of his personality, and in those days, there were no psychologists and psychiatrists to help.