The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 - LightNovelsOnl.com
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1826--Fort Wellington and Raffles Bay founded.
1827-28--Captain Gould on the south coast, near Port Lincoln.
1827--Allan Cunningham discovers the Darling Downs, the Dumaresque, Gwydir and Condamine Rivers, etc.
1828--Allan Cunningham, accompanied by Charles Frazer, botanist connected the Moreton Bay settlement, with the Darling Downs by way of Cunningham's Gap.
1828--Captain James Stirling, accompanied by Charles Frazer, in H.M.S.
SUCCESS; surveyed the coast of King George's Sound to the Swan River.
1828--Surveyor-General Oxley died near Sydney.
1828-29--Captain Charles Sturt's first expedition; discovered New Year's Creek (now the Bogan) and the Darling.
1829--Hay explored the country back of Parry's Inlet and discovered the Denmark River.
1829--Captain Fremantle hoisted the British flag at Fremantle.
1829--Captain la Place, from Toulon; visited Hobart Town and New Zealand.
1829--Captain R. Fitzroy, in the BEAGLE; visited King George's Sound.
1829--Fort Wellington and north coast settlement abandoned.
1829--Allan Cunningham explored the source of the Brisbane River his last expedition.
1839-30--Captain Charles Sturt's Murrumbidgee expedition; sailed down the Murray.
1830--Dale from the upper Swan River followed up the Avon.
1831--Major Bannister crossed from Perth to King George's Sound.
1831-32--Sir Thomas Mitch.e.l.l; Kindur expedition.
1832--Captain C. Barker murdered at Lake Alexandrina by the blacks.
1833--Surveyor Dixon on the Bogan.
1833--Sir Thomas Mitch.e.l.l on the Namoi.
1833--Richard Cunningham, botanist, brother to Allan Cunningham, murdered by the blacks while with Sir Thomas Mitch.e.l.l's expedition.
1835--E. Henty and brother formed a settlement in Portland Bay.
1836--John Batman landed at Port Phillip, and became a permanent settler there.
1836--Captain Sir John Hindmarsh founded Adelaide; first Governor of South Australia.
1836--Colonel Light surveyed the sh.o.r.es of St. Vincent's Gulf, and selected site of present city of Adelaide.
1836--Captain Hobson (afterwards Governor of New Zealand), in H.M.S RATTLESNAKE; surveyed and named Hobson's Bay.
1836--Sir Thomas Mitch.e.l.l's expedition through Australia Felix.
1837--Captain George Grey (afterwards Governor of South Australia), with Lieutenant Lus.h.i.+ngton; explorations on north-west coast.
1837-Messrs. Hesse and Gellibrand, while exploring Cape Otway country, were murdered by the blacks.
1837-45--Captains Wickham and Stokes, in the BEAGLE, surveyed the coasts of Australia, completing the geographical knowledge of the sh.o.r.es of the continent.
1838--E. J. Eyre; Port Phillip to Adelaide; discovered Like Hindmarsh.
1838--Sir Gordon Bremer re-settled Port Essington.
1839--Captain George Grey; second expedition; Western Australia.
1839--Schooner CHAMPION examined the west coast for navigable rivers.
1839--George Hamilton and party overland from Sydney to Melbourne. (See Overlanders, page 454 [in Index of Names])
1839--Governor Gawler, South Australia; made an excursion to the Murray.
1839--E. J. Eyre to the head of Spencer's Gulf and Lake Torrens, Port Lincoln, and Streaky Bay.
1839--Allan Cunningham died in Sydney.
1840--Angus M'Millan discovered Gippsland.
1840--Patrick Leslie, called the father of Darling Downs settlement; settled on the Condamine.
1840-41--E. J. Eyre travelled the Great Bight to King George's Sound.
1841--John Orr and party explored Gippsland.
1841--Stuart and Sydenham Russell form Cecil Plains Station.
1841--Dr. Edward Barker, Edward Hobson, and Albert Brodribb were the first to walk from Melbourne to Gippsland. The present road follows their track.
1842--Stuart Russell discovered Boyne River; journeyed from Moreton to Wide Bay in a boat.
1842-45--Captain Blackwood, in the FLY; continued the surveys of Captains Wickham and Stokes; and made a minute examination of the Great Barrier Reef.
1843--Count Paul von Strzelecki followed M'Millan's tracks when he discovered Gippsland.
1843--Captain Frome, Surveyor-General of South Australia; explorations in the neighbourhood of Lake Torrens.
1843--Messrs. Landor and Lefroy; exploration in Western Australia.
