Use this web site to identify five early explorers in Australia.
Pick one explorer who explored in the Northern Territory
and write a short bio about him.
[http://gutenberg.net.au/explorers.html]
Pick one explorer who explored in the Northern Territory
and write a short bio about him.
[http://gutenberg.net.au/explorers.html]
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Five early explores were Frank Greogory, Edmund Kennedy, Alfred Howitt, Fredrick Walker and John McKinlay.
My choice of the early N.T explorer is John McKinlay he explored Northern Territory and reported on the best sites for settlements.
B.J
Augustos Gregory.
Augustos Gregory explored queensland and northern territory where he discovred and named sturt's creek, which he traced for 300 miles.
in march he led and expidition to search for Leichhardt's party which had dissapeared without a trace on 1848.
he was born in 1821 and died in 1888
in march he led and expidition to search for Leichhardt's party which had dissapeared without a trace on 1848. hos journal was published in 1884, covering his journeys and those of his brothers, Francais Thomas Gregory
A.S
John McDouall Stuart had an established reputation as an explorer. That the government offered him a £2,000 award for being the first man to cross Australia south to north. He reached the centre of Australia as the first man to do so.
The hill named Central Mount Stuart was named after him as his achievement. On an attempt he was forced to come back. Then it was not until 1862 where he made his third expedition and it was a success. Reaching the north coast in Darwin 24th July.
Returning to Adelaide, Stuart was able to report that good pasture land was to be had to the north, and as a result of this expedition, South Australia accepted temporary control of Northern Territory. The Overland Telegraph, completed in 1872, follows very closely the route taken by Stuart.
Augustos Gregory.
Augustos Gregory explored queensland and northern territory where he discovred and named sturt's creek, which he traced for 300 miles.
in march he led and expidition to search for Leichhardt's party which had dissapeared without a trace on 1848.
he was born in 1819 and died in 1905
in march he led and expidition to search for Leichhardt's party which had dissapeared without a trace on 1848. hos journal was published in 1884, covering his journeys and those of his brothers, Francais Thomas Gregory
A.S
Phillip Parker King, the eldest son of Governor King, was born on Norfolk Island in 1791. He joined the British Navy and was the first Australian to become an admiral.
In 1817 King was given command of an expedition to complete the exploration of the north-western coast of Australia. Sailing in the cutter "Mermaid", by way of Bass Strait to North West Cape, he commenced his survey along the coast towards Arnhem Land.
During his four voyages off the northern and north-western coasts, King named Port Essington and Buccaneer's Archipelago (after Dampier), proved the insularity of Melville Island and charted the coastline. He also surveyed the west coast from Rottnest Island to Cygnet Bay (in King Sound) and the entrance to Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania
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John MacGillivray was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, on 18 December 1822.
He was botanist on the voyages of H.M.S. Rattlesnake (Captain Owen Stanley, 18471850), collecting at Port Curtis, Rockingham Bay, Port Molle, Cape York, Gould Island, Lizard Island and Moreton Islands in Queensland, Port Essington (Northern Territory) and visiting Sydney (New South Wales) on several occasions. The expedition was in Hobart, Tasmania, in June 1847 and also surveyed in Bass Strait, and on the southern coast of New Guinea and the Louisiade Archipelago. He was a member of expeditions to the Fly and Bramble Rivers in 18421846, and on the voyage of the Herald (18521861), which visited, inter alia, Lord Howe Island, New South Wales, Dirk Hartog Island and Shark Bay, Western Australia.
S.B
John McDouall Stuart had an established reputation as an explorer. That the government offered him a £2,000 award for being the first man to cross Australia south to north. He reached the centre of Australia as the first man to do so.
The hill named Central Mount Stuart was named after him as his achievement. On an attempt he was forced to come back. Then it was not until 1862 where he made his third expedition and it was a success. Reaching the north coast in Darwin 24th July.
Returning to Adelaide, Stuart was able to report that good pasture land was to be had to the north, and as a result of this expedition, South Australia accepted temporary control of Northern Territory. The Overland Telegraph, completed in 1872, follows very closely the route taken by Stuart.
C.M
Five explorers were B. Herschel Babbage, Francis BARRALLIER, and Nathaniel BUCHANAN, Gregory Blaxland and William Lawson
My choice of early N.T explorer is William Lawson William Lawson (2 June 1774 – 16 June 1850) was an explorer of New South Wales, Australia who co-discovered a passage inland through the Blue Mountains from Sydney. Lawson was born in London and arrived in Sydney as an ensign with the New South Wales Corps in 1800, soon being posted to Norfolk Island. In 1808 and 1809 he was in charge of the new settlement at Coal River, now the city of Newcastle.
Five explorers were B. Herschel Babbage, Francis BARRALLIER, and Nathaniel BUCHANAN, Gregory Blaxland and William Lawson
My choice of early N.T explorer is William Lawson William Lawson (2 June 1774 – 16 June 1850) was an explorer of New South Wales, Australia who co-discovered a passage inland through the Blue Mountains from Sydney. Lawson was born in London and arrived in Sydney as an ensign with the New South Wales Corps in 1800, soon being posted to Norfolk Island. In 1808 and 1809 he was in charge of the new settlement at Coal River, now the city of Newcastle.
N.J
Charles Darwin: Charles Robert Darwin was born on the 12th of february 1809. Charles Darwin discovered the evolution theory. He died on the 19th of april 1882.Darwin developed his interest in natural history while studying medicine at Edinburgh University, then theology at Cambridge.[3] His five-year voyage on the Beagle established him as an eminent geologist whose observations and theories supported Charles Lyell’s uniformitarian ideas.
john.b
Charles Darwin: Charles Robert Darwin was born on the 12th of february 1809. Charles Darwin discovered the evolution theory. He died on the 19th of april 1882.Darwin developed his interest in natural history while studying medicine at Edinburgh University, then theology at Cambridge. His five-year voyage on the Beagle established him as an eminent geologist whose observations and theories supported Charles Lyell’s uniformitarian ideas.
Francis Thomas GREGORY
Augustus C. Gregory, a surveyor, was the most distinguished of three exploring brothers. His explorations included expeditions in Western Australia (where he discovered and named Lake Moore), Queensland, and Northern Territory (where he discovered and named Sturt's Creek, which he traced for 300 miles).
Francis Thomas Gregory went missing in 1848 without a trace. He went to Adelaide in 1858 without having found the missing expedition.
Francis Thomas Gregory also discovered Perth and Toowoomba, Queensland.
B. H-T
Five early explorers
NATHANIEL, BUCHANAN
WILLIAM, LANDSBOROUHG
SIR JOHN, FRANKLIN
GEORGE WILLIAM, EVANS
SIR AUGUSTUS CHARLES, GREGORY
My Northern Territory explorers
Nathaniel, Buchanan
Was born near Dublin in 1826.
He arrived in New South Wales with his father in 1832, and as a young man was part owner with two brothers of Bald Blair station.
Throughout the seventies and eighties Buchanan did a large amount of pioneering, working principally in northern, Queensland and the Northern Territory.
Buchanan was a great bushman, and though he never led an important expedition, a fine explorer. Probably no other man knew the country from northern Queensland round an arc to Western Australia so well as he did. He seldom made much money for himself though he was a pioneer on Bowen Downs, on the Barkly Tableland, on the Roper River, and on the Victoria River, and pioneered the trail from the Kimberleys towards Perth. But he made possibilities for other men who in many cases reaped where he had sown.
H.F
Five early explores were Frank Greogory, Edmund Kennedy, Alfred Howitt, Fredrick Walker and John McKinlay.
My choice of the early N.T explorer is John McKinlay. He was born at Sandbank on the Clyde, Scotland, in 1819. In September 1865 he was sent to explore the Northern Territory and to report on the best sites for settlement. It was an exceptionally rainy season and while on the Alligator River the expedition was surrounded by flood waters.
five early explorers were: phillip parker king, sir john franklin,john oxley, william gosse,john murray. we pick john oxley he was born in 1791 survied to 1856.
Phillip Parker King, the eldest son of Governor King, was born on Norfolk Island in 1791.He joined the British Navy and was the first Australian to become an admiral.
In 1817 King was given command of an expedition to complete the exploration of the north-western coast of Australia. Sailing in the cutter "Mermaid", by way of Bass Strait to North West Cape, he commenced his survey along the coast towards Arnhem Land.
during his four voyages off the northern and north western coats king named port essington and buccaneers Archipelago (after Dampier), proved the insularity of Melville Island and charted the coastline. He also surveyed the west coast from Rottnest Island to Cygnet Bay (in King Sound) and the entrance to Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania.
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Five early explores were Frank Greogory, Edmund Kennedy, Alfred Howitt, Fredrick Walker and John McKinlay.
My choice of the early N.T explorer is John McKinlay. He was born at Sandbank on the Clyde, Scotland, in 1819. In September 1865 he was sent to explore the Northern Territory and to report on the best sites for settlement. It was an exceptionally rainy season and while on the Alligator River the expedition was surrounded by flood waters.
BJ
Alexander Forrest was born in Picton in September 22 1849 and he died in June 20 1901. He was the son of William Forrest he was educated at the goverment school in Bunbury then he completed his education at Hale School in Perth.
In 1879 he led a party of eight men from De Grey River then skirted to the Fitzroy River From there they made
their way to Palmerston, then the capital of the Northern Territory, and they arrived on 7 October.
C.B
John McGillivray was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, on 18 December 1822.
He was botanist on the voyages of H.M.S. Rattlesnake (Captain Owen Stanley, 1847¬1850), collecting at Port Curtis, Rockingham Bay, Port Molle, Cape York, Gould Island, Lizard Island and Moreton Islands in Queensland, Port Essington (Northern Territory) and visiting Sydney (New South Wales) on several occasions. The expedition was in Hobart, Tasmania, in June 1847 and also surveyed in Bass Strait, and on the southern coast of New Guinea and the Louisiade Archipelago. He was a member of expeditions to the Fly and Bramble Rivers in 1842¬1846, and on the voyage of the Herald (1852¬1861), which visited, inter alia, Lord Howe Island, New South Wales, Dirk Hartog Island and Shark Bay, Western Australia.
I didn’t know that he was born in Scotland and still came all the way to Australia.
I chose him because no one else had done him yet so he was my last resort.
S.B
Five early explorers of Australia are Dirk Hartog, John Brooke, Pieter Nuyts, Francois Pelsart and Abel Tasman. The person I choose is Ludwig Leichhardt he explore part of the NT North-East of Darwin his full name is FRIEDRICH WILHELM LUDWIG LEICHHARDT. He lived from 1813 to 1848 and is a German explorer.
Ludwig Leichhardt is remembered for his long journey in 1844 from the Darling Downs to Port Essington, an early settlement in the far north of the Northern Territory. He proceeded up the Burdekin Valley, crossed the Dividing Range, and discovered the Lynd and Mitchell Rivers.
In 1846-1847 Leichhardt was forced by heat and drought to turn back from an attempt to traverse Australia from east to west, but shortly afterwards again set out on an overland journey to Perth. I choose him because he explored in the NT and his name is hard to read.
George Goyder, George Bass, Francis Barrallier, Frederick Walker and Francois Pelsart were 5 early explorers.
I am writing a bio about George Goyder.
He was a surveyor in South Australia during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Goyder was born in Liverpool, England to Sarah and David George Goyder, the latter a Swedenborgian minister and physician. He moved to Glasgow with his family where he worked with an engineering firm and studied surveying. In 1848, at the age of 22, Goyder followed his sister and brother-in-law, George Galbraith McLachlan, to Sydney, New South Wales. He spent time working with an auctioneering firm and moved to Adelaide in 1851, obtaining work as a civil service draftsman.
His rose rapidly in the civil service, becoming Assistant Surveyor-General by 1856 and Surveyor-General by 1861. He is remembered today for Goyder's Line of rainfall, a line used in South Australia to demarcate land climatically suitable for arable farming from that suitable only for light grazing. However, Goyder was an avid researcher into the lands of South Australia (including the present-day Northern Territory) and made recommendations to a great number of settlers in the newly developing colony, especially to those exploiting the newly discovered mineral resources of the state.
S.C.
Five early explorers of Australia are Dirk Hartog, John Brooke, Pieter Nuyts, Francois Pelsart and Abel Tasman. The person I choose is Ludwig Leichhardt he explore part of the NT North-East of Darwin his full name is FRIEDRICH WILHELM LUDWIG LEICHHARDT. He lived from 1813 to 1848 and is a German explorer.
Ludwig Leichhardt is remembered for his long journey in 1844 from the Darling Downs to Port Essington, an early settlement in the far north of the Northern Territory. He proceeded up the Burdekin Valley, crossed the Dividing Range, and discovered the Lynd and Mitchell Rivers.
In 1846-1847 Leichhardt was forced by heat and drought to turn back from an attempt to traverse Australia from east to west, but shortly afterwards again set out on an overland journey to Perth. I choose him because he explored in the NT and his name is hard to read.
AW
Five early explorers of Australia were Charles Sturt, Frank Gregory, Augustus Gregory, John McKinlay and Ludwig Leichhardt.
My choice of the early exploration in the N.T was John McDouall Stuart. John McDouall Stuart was born on 7 September 1815 and died on 5 June 1866.
He explored Darwin on the 24th of July 1862.
C.K
GREGORY, Sir AUGUSTUS CHARLES (1819-1905), explorer and surveyor-general, was born on 1 August 1819 at Farnsfield, Nottinghamshire, England. Gregory explored the NT at 1846 and 1858 and died 25th of June 1905.
L.T.
GREGORY, Sir AUGUSTUS CHARLES (1819-1905), explorer and surveyor-general, was born on 1 August 1819 at Farnsfield, Nottinghamshire, England. Gregory explored the NT at 1846 and 1858 and died 25th of June 1905.
LT
Five explorers were B. Herschel Babbage, Francis BARRALLIER, and Nathaniel BUCHANAN, Gregory Blaxland and William Lawson
Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt, a Prussian scientist, is remembered for his long journey in 1844.5 from the Darling Downs to Port Essington, an early settlement in the far north of the Northern Territory.
He proceeded up the Burdekin Valley, crossed the Dividing Range, and discovered the Lynd and Mitchell Rivers. After following the Mitchell, Leichhardt skirted the shores of the Gulf of Carpentaria. The exhausted party lost much valuable equipment at the Roper River and finally arrived at Port Essington, in December, 1845. He made the return journey by sea.
n.j
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