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BOOK 2. - AUSTRALIAN DISCOVERY BY LAND

LIST OF PRINCIPAL DATES

1813. Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth find a way across the Blue Mountains.

1815. Evans discovers the Lachlan.

1818. Oxley explores the Macquarie and discovers the Castlereagh.

1821. Throsby finds the Murrumbidgee.

1823. Allan Cunningham finds Pandora's Pass.

1824. Hume and Hovell's expedition to Westernport.

1825. Lockyer explores the Brisbane River.

1827. Cunningham discovers the Darling Downs.

1828. Sturt discovers the Darling.

1830. Sturt explores the Murray to the sea.

1836. Mitchell explores Australia Felix.

1837-39. Grey's explorations in Western Australia.

1839-40. Macmillan's exploration of Gippsland.

1840. Strzelecki's journey through Gippsland.

1841. Eyre's overland journey to Albany.

1844. Sturt's exploration of central Australia.

1845. Leichhardt's journey to the Gulf of Carpentaria.

1848. Leichhardt's last expedition.

1848 E. B. Kennedy's exploration of York Peninsula.

1855-56. A. C. Gregory's expedition in search of Leichhardt.

1860. McDouall Stuart reaches the centre of the continent.

1861. Burke and Wills expedition.

1861-62. McKinlay's journey from Adelaide to the Gulf of Carpentaria.

1862. Stuart traverses the continent from south to north.

1869. John Forrest's expedition in search of traces of Leichhardt.

1874. Forrest's inland expedition.

1872-75. Giles's inland expeditions.

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