Australian Explorers

After marrying in 1850, Edward John Eyre had 5 children: four sons and a daughter.

Hamilton Hume and William Hovell explored southwest from Sydney, travelling overland down through the region now known as Victoria, and to Corio Bay, not far from Port Phillip Bay. Hume and Hovell discovered and mapped numerous rivers in what is now Victoria, adding to the knowledge of inland Australia.

Convicts first landed in Sydney, New South Wales. Later, they were also sent to colonies in Tasmania, Moreton Bay and the Swan River (Western Australia).

Yes. Edward Eyre was the first European to attempt to drive cattle and sheep from New South Wales to Adelaide. It was while he was on this expedition in 1838 that he came across Lake Hindmarsh and camped there. Eyre named the lake after the Governor of South Australia, Sir John Hindmarsh.

He succumbed to long term illness, and exhaustion from his expeditions, and died on 25 May 1828, at his Kirkham property, New South Wales, aged 45.

This puzzle was solved by Captain Charles Sturt in 1829-30, when he followed the Lachlan River into the Murrumbidgee, and the Murrumbidgee into the Murray, then followed the Murray to Lake Alexandrina.

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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.

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Robert O'Hara Burke and William Wills led the Australian expedition that was intended to bring fame and prestige to Victoria: being the first to cross Australia from south to north and back again. Burke's party left from Royal Park, Melbourne, in August 1860, and headed north-northwest to Menindee. Part of the group then pushed on to the Gulf of Carpentaria, with most remaining at Cooper Creek. Through poor judgement, lack of observation and a series of miscommunications, Burke and Wills never met up with the relief party at Cooper Creek on their return. Burke and Wills died around July 1861, without ever returning to Melbourne.

Gregory Blaxland was one of the first three Europeans to cross the Blue Mountains. This was significant because, after the colony of Sydney/New South Wales had been virtually imprisoned by the mountains for twenty five years, graziers and farmers were now able to expand out into new grasslands and agricultural lands. It marked a new season of prosperity for Australia.

The exact date of Ludwig Leichhardt's death is not known, but he died sometime after he departed on his third expedition. His third and final expedition began in March 1848. The last sighting of Leichhardt, six other men, fifty bullocks, twenty mules and seven horses was made as they departed Roma, Queensland, on 4 April 1848. Somewhere in Australia's vast outback, the entire party vanished, and no-one in the party was ever seen again.

Many theories have abounded as to what happened, and many claim to have found evidence of the remains of the expedition, but what really happened remains one of Australia's enduring mysteries.

Several expeditions were mounted in an attempt to determine Leichhardt's fate. In 1852, Hovenden Hely and a party of seven white men set out north, then west from Leichhardt's starting point. Hely located trees that had been marked, as well as camp sites, and encountered natives who had seen Leichhardt. These aboriginal men told stories of white people being killed in the night, as reprisal for ill-treating some native women. Hely developed the theory that Leichhardt was killed in a massacre.

In 1861, the expedition of Dempster, Clarkson and Harmer from Northam met a native called "Boodgin" who reported that 3 white men had come to a large lake of salt and were killed by the Jimbras. At Lake Grace nearby natives claimed 3 white men were killed by Jimbras near the inland sea. Jimbra was described as a large monkey and very fierce and would attack men. Ginka was the native name for devil which was never seen. The Jimbra was seen and felt claimed the natives. John Forrest's expedition later followed up these claims. Whether this was Leichhardt's party or another is unknown.

In 1871, JM Gilmour headed up an expedition to follow up on claims that Leichhardt's party was murdered. At Cooper Creek, they met an Aborigine who claimed a party of white men were killed at Wantata waterhole. When Gilmour found the location, he noted unburied skeletons, indicating high likelihood that they were the remains of white men. He also found other evidence of the party that confirmed the finding.

Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Charles Wentworth are remembered for being the first Europeans to cross the Blue Mountains in 1813.

They departed South Creek, Sydney Cove, on 11 May 1813 with four servants, five dogs and four horses. Their exploration was significant because the discovery of a traversible route over the Blue Mountains meant that the colony of Sydney could now expand to the rich grasslands on the other side.

There are various ways in which they are remembered for their feat. there are numerous towns named with Lawson, Blaxland or Wentworth scattered around Australia. At Mt Blaxland, the farthest point of their journey, there is a cairn marking the most westerly point of their journey. There are also markers on the slopes of Mt Blaxland which indicate points along their journey.

Explorer Gregory Blaxland was honoured by these places being named after him: * the town of Blaxland in the Blue Mountains * Mount Blaxland and later: * the Australian Electoral Division of Blaxland * Blaxland, a small Queensland railway siding on the Darling Downs, between Oakey and Dalby

Success is measured by how wella goal is completed. In the case of Burke and Wills, their primary goal was not achieved.

Burke and Wills hoped to be the first explorers to cross overland from the south of Australia to the north. By being the first to make a crossing from south to north and bsck again, they hoped to win the right for the colony of Victoria to build the telegraph line which would connect Australia's major cities with the line in the north, near present-day Darwin, which in turn connected to Java, and hence to the rest of the world. In the end, this was won by South Australia, thanks to the explorations of John McDouall Sturat.

Burke and Wills departed from Melbourne and reached the Gulf of Carpentaria, so they achieved the first part of their goal before any other explorers. However, due to a series of misunderstandings and miscommunication, the relief party never reached Burke and Wills, and the men died out in the desert, on the banks of Cooper Creek.

Gregory Blaxland was one of the first three Europeans to discover a route across the Blue Mountains. This was significant because, after the colony of Sydney/New South Wales had been virtually imprisoned by the mountains for twenty five years, graziers and farmers were now able to expand out into new grasslands and agricultural lands. It marked a new season of prosperity for Australia.

The exploration of Burke and Wills was fraught with problems.

Burke and Wills led Australia's best-equipped and most expensive exploration expedition. With such preparation behind them, they should not have died - but Burke was impatient, and it was this very human quality that essentially resulted in their premature deaths.

Robert O'Hara Burke, with William Wills later appointed second-in-command, led the expedition to try to cross Australia from south to north and back again. The exploration party was very well equipped, and subsequently very large. Because of its size, the exploration party was split at Menindee so that Burke could push ahead to the Gulf of Carpentaria with a smaller party. Splitting the part was a fatal mistake. The smaller group went on ahead to establish the depot at Cooper Creek which would serve to offer the necessary provisions for when the men returned from the Gulf. After several unsuccessful forays into the northern dry country from Cooper Creek, Burke decided to push on ahead to the Gulf in December 1860, regardless of the risks - and the intense summer heat. He took with him Wills, Charles Gray and John King.

The expedition to the Gulf took longer than Burke anticipated: upon his return to Cooper Creek, he found that the relief party had left just seven hours earlier, less than the amount of time it had taken to bury Gray, who had died on the return journey. Gray died from starvation, and from being abused and badly beaten by Burke when he was found stealing food.

Through poor judgement, lack of observation and a series of miscommunications, Burke and Wills never met up with the relief party. They perished on the banks of Cooper Creek. Burke died on or around 30 June 1861. King alone survived to lead the rescue party to the remains of Burke and Wills, and the failure of one of the most elaborately planned expeditions in Australia's history.

The exact cause of Burke and Wills's death was not starvation or malnutrition, but inadvertent poisoning. The men knew that the Aborigines gathered nardoo which they had used to sustain Burke and Wills, until they were frightened off by Burke's defensiveness against the Aborigines. So, whilst awaiting the rescue that never came, Burke and Wills made their way to where they knew Aborigines collected Nardoo. Nardoo was an important bush food for Aborigines, who knew how to prepare its seedpods (or, strictly speaking, sporocaps) to make flour. The sporocarps contain poisons that must first be removed for them to be eaten safely. Studies of the explorers' journals indicate that they probably died of nardoo poisoning, after failing to follow precautions from the Aborigines of how to prepare it safely.

Matthew Flinders was born on 16 March 1774 in Lincolnshire, England. He became a sea explorer, and arrived in Australia in the 1790s. Together with George Bass, Flinders completed much sea exploration around Australia, adding to the knowledge of the coastline, and producing accurate maps. Flinders, together with Bass, was the first to prove that Van Diemen's Land, or Tasmania, was an island and not connected to the mainland. Flinders was also the first to circumnavigate the continent, and between December 1801 and June 1803, he charted most of the coastline of Australia. The western half of Australia was previously known as New Holland, whilst the eastern half was known as New South Wales. Flinders first proposed the name "Terra Australis", which became "Australia", the name adopted in 1824.

Flinders was captured by the French on the island of Mauritius in 1803. He was kept prisoner until 1810 on the grounds that he was a spy. He was finally released to return to England, but due to the ravages of his time as a prisoner, his health suffered and he died at the age of 40, on 19 July 1814. Before his death he completed a book on his travels called 'A Voyage to Terra Australis', and died on the day that his book was published.

Flinders was also well known for his cat, "Trim", who accompanied Flinders between 1799 and 1804, when Trim died whilst Flinders was incarcerated. Trim was a great favourite with Flinders' sailors, and a little known manuscript from Flinders' writings emerged in the latter half of the twentieth century, and was later published under the name of "Trim". It was Flinders' personal account of his beloved cat.

Numerous explorers were sent to try to cross the Blue Mountains in an attempt to find new land for the growing colony in New South Wales. The first successful explorers were William Charles Wentworth, William Lawson and Gregory Blaxland.

Others who attempted the crossing before these three were George Caley, George Bass, Francis Barrallier, William Dawes and Watkin Tench, just to name a few.

Gregory Blaxland, together with William Wentworth and William Lawson, were the first Europeans to cross the Blue Mountains in May 1813. Compared to later explorers, they suffered few difficulties. However, problems encountered included: * Thick bushland which required machetes to hack through, meaning very slow progress was made. * If they followed the rivers, they invariably ended up against sheer cliff faces or mazes of impassable gorges. * When they first tried to follow the ridges, they often found themselves overlooking precariously steep cliffs which could not be descended. Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth eventually successfully crossed the mountain range by following the ridges rather than the river valleys. After an arduous three weeks of exploring through difficult and previously impenetrable terrain, Australia's first explorers reached Mount Blaxland from where they could see the plains to the west, on 31 May 1813.

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.

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.