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Australian Explorers - Their Labours, Perils, and Achievements

Name: Australian Explorers - Their Labours, Perils, and Achievements
Author: George Grimm

George Grimm

Read by Son of the Exiles, Jim Locke, Craig Franklin, Piotr Nater and jenno · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Preface (6:43)
Introduction. Pioneer Navigators (39:54)
Chapter I. The Pioneers of the Blue Mountains (14:58)
Chapter II. Surveyor Evan's Discovery of the Lachlan and Macquarie Rivers and the Bathurst Plains (4:16)
Chapter III. Oxley's Expedition to the Lachlan and Macquarie Rivers (13:03)
Chapter IV. Hume and Hovell's Expedition from Lake George to Port Phillip (13:24)
Chapter V. Allan Cunningham's Explorations (21:15)
Chapter VI. Captain Sturt's Three Expeditions (49:40)
Chapter VII. Eyre's Adventurous Journey Along the Great Australian Bight (23:33)
Chapter VIII. Sir Thomas Mitchell's Four Expeditions (50:00)
Chapter IX. Kennedy's Disastrous Expedition to Cape Yorke (15:45)
Chapter X. Leichhardt's Expedition to Port Essington and into the Interior (18:29)
Chapter XI. Mr. A. C. Gregory's Expedition to the North-West Interior (6:44)
Chapter XII. Burke and Wills's Expedition Across the Australian Continent (25:47)
Chapter XIII. Search Expeditions in Quest of Burke and Wills (17:33)
Chapter XIV. John McDouall Stuart’s Expeditions in the South, to the Centre, and Across the Continent (25:40)
Chapter XV. Colonel Warburton's Journey Across the Western Interior (18:04)
Chapter XVI. The Hon. John Forrest's Explorations in Western Australia (16:05)
Chapter XVII. Mr. Ernest Giles's Explorations in Central and Western Australia (16:10)
Chapter XVIII. Other Explorers in Western Australia - Conclusion (12:58)