What are some Australian places named after explorers?

Answer 1

There are many, and the following are just a selection.

• Wentworth Falls in the Blue mountains! named after Wentworth, one of the first explorers to successfully cross the Blue Mountains.
• The towns of Wentworth, Lawson and Blaxland, all named after the first explorers to cross the Blue mountains.
• Hume Dam, on the Murray River, and the Hume Highway, after Hamilton Hume, the Australian-born explorer who first travelled overland from Sydney to Port Phillip.
• Lake Eyre, after Edward Eyre, the intrepid explorer who first crossed the Nullarbor! amid the most amazing circumstances.
• The Brisbane suburb of Oxley, named after John Oxley, who is credited with discovering the Brisbane River (though it was actually three ticket-of-leave convicts who discovered it)
• the Stuart Highway and Central Mount Stuart, named after Scottish explorer John McDouall Stuart, who was the first recorded explorer to cross from South to North in Austalia, and return alive.
• Flinders Ranges and Flinders River after Matthew Flinders, the first to circumnavigate the continent.
• Leichhardt River, after Prussian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, who explored overland from the Darling Downs to Port Essington.
• The Mitchell River, are Sir Thomas Mitchell.
• the Sturt Stony desert and the Sturt River in South Australia, after e first explorer to follow the Murray River to its mouth.

Answer 2

Matthew Flinders - Flinders Island

Captain James Cook - Cooktown

George Bass - Bass staight