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Home › Culture › Travel › Explorers › Australian

Australian

Robert O’Hara Burke (1820-1861)

  • With William Wills, made the first south-north crossing of the Australia (from Victoria to the Gulf of Carpentaria) (1861)

John Forrest (1847-1918)

  • Crossed Western Australia along the southern coast route (1870)
  • Crossed Western Australia much farther north, exploring the Musgrave Ranges (1874)

Hamilton Hume (1797-1873)

  • With William Hovell, led an expedition from Sydney to the Murray River and Port Phillip (1824)

Friedrich Leichardt (1813-1848)

  • Walked from Sydney to Moreton Bay (1843)
  • Walked from Brisbane to Arnhem Land (1844)

Douglas Mawson (1882-1958)

  • Reached the magnetic South Pole on the Shackleton expedition (1907-1909)
  • Led Antarctic expeditions (1911-1914; 1929-1931)





Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (1792-1855)

  • Led expeditions through New South Wales (1831-1832; 1835-1836), Victoria (1836), Queensland (1846)
  • Established that the Darling River joined the Murray

John Joseph William Molesworth Oxley (c1785-1828)

  • Explored the Lachlan River (1817)
  • Explored the Macquarie River (1818)
  • Explored Jervis Bay and Illawarra District (1819)
  • Explored the Moreton Bay area and discovered the Brisbane River (1823)

John McDouall Stuart (1815-1866)

  • Crossed the centre of Australia from Adelaide to the coast of Arnhem Land (1860)

Peter Egerton Warburton (1813-1889)

  • First to cross Australia from the south coast to central Australia via Alice Springs and from there to the De Grey River on the west coast (1873)

George Hubert Wilkins (1888-1958)

  • Flew from Barrow, Alaska, to Spitzbergen (1928)
  • Made an Antarctic flight, showing Graham Land to be an island (1929)

William Wills (1834-1861)

  • See: Robert O’Hara Burke




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