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Early explorers - Australia's Culture Portal

J. C. Armytage, Return of Burke and Wills to Coopers Creek, engraving, in Australia by Edwin Carton Booth, opp. Explorers set out to discover rivers and land suitable for agriculture as well as to survey the land. A major expedition usually produced a p...

Crossing the Great Dividing Range—surveying an ancient land - Australia's Culture Portal

Ernest Revell, Three Sisters, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, c. Sir Thomas Mitchell (1792-1855), Part of New South Wales from the summit of Jellore, 1839, lithograph print. In March 1812, the Colonial Surveyor George William Evans was sent to explore ...

Aboriginal trackers - Australia's Culture Portal

With mounting evidence and stories circulating about their seemingly miraculous ability to find people, Aboriginal trackers' abilities became legendary in the minds of white Australians. Paul Raffaele, Aboriginal tracker Teddy Egan and son. The Australi...

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Australian Explorers - Kerr, Colin and Margaret   (website Secondhand and Antiquarian Books )

Binding: HardbackEdition: 1st EditionPublisher: Adelaide Rigby 1978ISBN Number: 0727005863 / 9780727005861Seller ID: ID210115 Small Quarto Size. DJ protected in Mylar cover. Previous owner's name/details to front free endpaper. ...

Australian Explorers in rhyme   (website Burke & Wills Web )

Burke & Wills The thousands cheer, the banners wave, The glorious sun shines down, When Burke and Wills, the gentle, brave, Set forth to seek renown, With Landells, King, and fated Gray, All smiling in farewell; The woes are hid on that bright day, That f...

Australian Explorers, Robert Coupe - book - Buy Online at Homesick.com.au   (website Homesick )

Australian Explorers covers the exploits of Australia´s most memorable land and sea explorers. Additional International Delivery Fee for this Book: AUD $ 6.95 Every order placed at Homesick.com.au has a base delivery fee of AUD $5.95 for international de...

Australian Explorers, free ebooks, ebook, etext, text, books, exploration   (website Project Gutenberg Australia )

Project Gutenberg Australia gratefully acknowledges the significant contribution of Sue Asscher in preparing many of the eBooks relating to Australian Explorers, which are available from this page. Exploration Time Line--Australian Land and sea exploratio...

Early Australian explorers: History briefs   (website Dear Grandpa Pencil )

In 1788/9 Flinders, along with George Bass, sailed through what is now called Bass Straight and circumnavigated Tasmania. In 1801/3 Flinders made his famous voyage around Australia in the Investigator becoming the first known circumnavigation of the conti...

Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

irn=128010&search=explorers&site_id=3 92/752 Stamp pack (50), Australian Explorers, Australia Post, Australia, 1991 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=128010&search=explorers&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/data...

Sir Hubert Wilkins - Australian Pioneer Polar Explorer, Cinematographer, Aviator, and Humanitarian Environmentalist (Links)   (website Sir Hubert Wilkins )

The following sites are related to Sir Hubert Wilkins' life and adventures. Regional Council of GoyderSouth AustraliaFind out more information onSir Hubert's Birthplace. The Ice-Ship "Sir Hubert Wilkins"TasmaniaInaugural Voyage....

Sir Hubert Wilkins - Australian Pioneer Polar Explorer, Cinematographer, Aviator, and Humanitarian Environmentalist (Meet the HIPS team)   (website Sir Hubert Wilkins )

This HIPS Team Pageis currently being modified. It will return soon. [ Expedition Updates ] [ Join the Search ] [ Meet the HIPS team ] [ Email Us ] [ Website Links ] Copyright © 2002 HIPS - Hipwell International Production Services ~ Last modified: July 2...

Sir Hubert Wilkins - Australian Pioneer Polar Explorer, Cinematographer, Aviator, and Humanitarian Environmentalist (Oct 99 - South Australia)   (website Sir Hubert Wilkins )

The mysteries which surround the life of Sir Hubert Wilkins commence with his birth. However, the official records show that only 11 children were born to Harry and Louisa Wilkins and none of them are George Hubert Wilkins. The Searching for Sir Hubert ...

Sir Hubert Wilkins - Australian Pioneer Polar Explorer, Cinematographer, Aviator, and Humanitarian Environmentalist (Oct 99 - Framingham, Massachusetts)   (website Sir Hubert Wilkins )

While working there he chose to stay at the nearby Grand Central Hotel - Framingham (now known as the Old Colony Hotel), favoured for its peace and quiet rather than glamour. In Framingham we were fortunate to meet Al Greco who used to run the hotel and k...

Sir Hubert Wilkins - Australian Pioneer Polar Explorer, Cinematographer, Aviator, and Humanitarian Environmentalist (Oct 99 - Montrose, Pennsylvania)   (website Sir Hubert Wilkins )

In 1939 unknown to Sir Hubert, Lady Wilkins bought a property known as Cope's Tract in Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania. Sir Hubert first saw the property in August of that year. The solitude of the property appealed to Sir Hubert he said, "Its loneline...

Sir Hubert Wilkins - Australian Pioneer Polar Explorer, Cinematographer, Aviator, and Humanitarian Environmentalist (Expedition)   (website Sir Hubert Wilkins )

George Hubert Wilkins was born on 31 October 1888 at Mount Bryan, South Australia, 100 miles north of Adelaide. When he learnt about the war, Wilkins went to France where he was appointed an official photographer with the Australian War Records Office. ...

Sir Hubert Wilkins - Australian Pioneer Polar Explorer, Cinematographer, Aviator, and Humanitarian Environmentalist (Expedition Main Section)   (website Sir Hubert Wilkins )

In 1999, our 4 person crew traveled to over 20 locations on 3 continents to film interviews with people who knew Sir Hubert, photograph artefacts and attempt to unravel the mystery surrounding this man. Join us on our searchby clicking the navigation link...

Sir Hubert Wilkins - Australian Pioneer Polar Explorer, Cinematographer, Aviator, and Humanitarian Environmentalist (Oct 99 - Canberra)   (website Sir Hubert Wilkins )

Wilkins is the only Australian official photographer, in any war, to receive a combat decoration. Wilkins received his first Military Cross in October 1917 for his work as a photographer under heavy fire. A year later he received a bar to his Military C...

Sir Hubert Wilkins - Australian Pioneer Polar Explorer, Cinematographer, Aviator, and Humanitarian Environmentalist (Oct 99 - London, England)   (website Sir Hubert Wilkins )

In London we were fortunate to obtain interviews with lead members of two organisations for whom Wilkins worked in the 1920's, the Quaker's (or Society of Friends) and the Natural History Museum. In 1924 Wilkins accepted a position from the Natural Histor...

Sir Hubert Wilkins - Australian Pioneer Polar Explorer, Cinematographer, Aviator, and Humanitarian Environmentalist (Oct 99 - NYC, New York)   (website Sir Hubert Wilkins )

In 1928, after his flight across the top of the world, Sir Hubert Wilkins was given a ticker tape parade through the streets of New York. In the following years many of Sir Hubert's expeditions either commenced or finished in New York. Here Jeff Maynard...

Sir Hubert Wilkins - Australian Pioneer Polar Explorer, Cinematographer, Aviator, and Humanitarian Environmentalist (Nov 99 - Melbourne, Australia)   (website Sir Hubert Wilkins )

The whirlwind shooting schedule throughout the US and UK left the crew physically exhausted but excited about the material they had gathered on their trip. They had begun to understand the gruelling challenges Sir Hubert had faced during his adventures (...