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Robert O'Hara Burke (6 May 1821 – c. 28 June 1861) was an Irish soldier and police officer who achieved fame as an Australian explorer. He was the leader of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition, which was the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north, finding a route across the continent from the settled areas of Victoria to the Gulf of Carpentaria.
See Category:Australian explorers for explorers of Australian nationality. See European Exploration of Australia for an article covering the work done by the explorers. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Explorers of Australia .
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Willemering (c.1755 - c.1800) a Dharug man who speared Governor Arthur Phillip; Winberri (c.1820 - 1840) Taungurung man who led an insurgency against the British in central Victoria and was killed during the Lettsom raid; Tommy Windich (c.1840 - 1876) Western Australian Indigenous explorer
Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (15 June 1792 – 5 October 1855), often called Major Mitchell, was a Scottish surveyor and explorer of Southeastern Australia. He was born in Scotland and served in the British Army during the Peninsular War.
John McDouall Stuart in 1860. The Surveyor General of South Australia, Stuart's superior officer, was the famous explorer Captain Charles Sturt, who had already solved the mystery of the inland-flowing rivers of New South Wales, in the process reaching and naming the Darling River, travelling the full length of the Murrumbidgee, and tracing the Murray to the sea.
The competition to chart a route for the Australian Overland Telegraph Line spurred a number of cross-continental expeditions. Perhaps the most famous of these was the Burke and Wills expedition led by Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills who in 1860–61 led a well equipped expedition from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria. Due to an ...
James Meehan [1] [2] (1774 – 21 April 1826) was an Irish Australian explorer and surveyor.. Meehan was born in Ireland, in Shinrone, County Offaly, in 1774.He was declared a rebel and given a life sentence in a trial after the Rebellion of 1798 [3] and was one of a number of political prisoners who arrived in Australia on the Friendship in February 1800.