The Australian Explorers
THEIR LABOURS, PERILS, AND ACHIEVEMENTS
BEING A NARRATIVE OF DISCOVERY FROM THE LANDING OF CAPTAIN COOK TO THE CENTENNIAL YEAR

George Grimm, M.A.

MINISTER OF ST. PAUL'S, BALMAIN WEST, SYDNEY; AND TUTOR IN
 APOLOGETICS AND SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY TO THE PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH OF NEW SOUTH WALES

1888

TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE

JOHN DUNMORE LANG, D.D.

IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF MUCH PLEASANT INTERCOURSE
THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED

Table of Contents

 

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction: The Australian Navigators
• 1. The Pioneers of the Blue Mountains
• 2. Evans's Discovery of the Lachlan and Macquaries
• 3. Oxley's Expedition to the Lachlan and Macquarie
• 4. Hume and Hovell's Expedition from Lake George to Port Phillip
• 5. Allan Cunningham's Explorations
• 6. Captain Sturt's Three Expeditions
• 7. Eyre's Adventurous Journey Along the Great Australian Bight
• 8. Sir Thomas Mitchell's Four Expeditions
• 9. Kennedy's Diastrous Expedition to Cape York
• 10. Leichhardt's Expeditions to Port Essington and Into the Interior
• 11. Mr. A. C. Gregory's Expedition to the North-West Interior
• 12. Burke and Wills's Expedion Across the Australian Continent
• 13. Search Expeditions in Quest of Burke and Wills
• 14. John McDouall Stuart's Expeditions in the South, to the Centre, and Across the Continent
• 15. Colonel Warburton's Journey Across the Western Interior
• 16. The Hon. John Forrest's Explorations in Western Australia
• 17. Mr. Ernest Gile's Explorations in Central and Western Australia
• 18. Other Explorers in Western Australia - Conclusion

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11/04/2007

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