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Mount Blaxland, actually a hill, is located about 15 kilometres south of Lithgow. [1] It was the furthest point reached by Blaxland , Lawson , and Wentworth on their historic 1813 crossing of the Blue Mountains .
William Lawson was born in England, where he later trained to become a surveyor. He migrated to Sydney, Australia, arriving in 1800. He was an officer in the New South Wales Corp and owned land where he raised many cattle and sheep. He was invited to join the 1813 expedition with Gregory Blaxland. [14] The town of Lawson is also named after him.
Blaxland's expedition to cross the Blue Mountains. For many years, plans of westward expansion from Sydney were thwarted by the Great Dividing Range, a large range of mountains which shadows the east coast from the Queensland-New South Wales border to the south coast.
1813 in Australia featured a number of important developments. Gregory Blaxland , William Lawson and William Charles Wentworth crossed the Blue Mountains which opened up the interior of New South Wales for European settlement. [ 1 ]
Gregory Blaxland was born 17 June 1778 at Fordwich, Kent, England, the fourth son of John Blaxland, mayor from 1767 to 1774, whose family had owned estates nearby for generations, and Mary, daughter of Captain Parker, R.N. Gregory attended The King's School, Canterbury. In July 1799 in the church of St George the Martyr there, he married 20 ...
Blaxland is a town in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. Blaxland is located 65 kilometres west of Sydney in the local government area of the City of Blue Mountains . It is at an altitude of 234 metres and borders the townships of Glenbrook , Mount Riverview and Warrimoo .
Evans generally followed the route of Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth, reaching the end of their route on 26 November 1813 at a point that Evans then named Mount Blaxland. Evans' party then moved on and visited the Fish River area and further west near the junction of the now named Fish and Campbell Rivers and described two plains in his view ...
In May 1813 explorers Blaxland, Wentworth, and Lawson setout to discover the inland to the west of Sydney, over the Blue Mountains. The group climbed the mountains and on reaching the top of the ridges they continued west to a point later named Mount Blaxland (south of present-day Rydal). This was the first access by Europeans to the area now ...