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Joe Flick (c.1865 - 1889) Indigenous Australian outlaw who shot dead a Native Police officer; Gnunga Gnunga Murremurgan (c.1773 - 1809) Eora man who was the first Indigenous Australian to travel across the Pacific Ocean; Kapiu Masi Gagai (c. 1894 - 1946) a Torres Strait Islander man who worked as a pearler, boatman, mission worker and soldier
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.
The History of Australian Exploration - Timeline by Ernest Favenc 1800 - 1802 Grant and Murray voyage of 1800 to 1802 James Grant (navigator) and John Murray (Australian explorer) successfully passed through Bass Strait, the first ship sailing from England to Australia to do so. Surveyed Western Port.
Among his brothers were Francis Thomas Gregory, who also became a noted explorer. [citation needed] Joshua William Gregory, born 1815, died 20 September 1850 aged 35. Augustus Charles Gregory, born 1 August 1819, died 1905 aged 86; Francis (Frank) Thomas Gregory, born 1821. Henry Churcham Gregory, born 1823, died London 29 July 1903 aged 79 ...
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.
Robert O'Hara Burke 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. The expedition left Melbourne on 20 August 1860 with a total of 19 men, 27 camels, and 23 horses.