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The Explorers



 * George Bass (1797-1799) - British naval surgeon navigator
 * Matthew Flinders (1802-1803) - circumnavigated Australia and encouraged the use of that name for the continent
 * John Oxley (1817-1818) - discovered Tweed River
 * Allan Cunningham (1817-1821) - traveled in New South Wales to collect plants
 * Hume and Hovell expedition (1824) - led expedition for new southern grazing land and also to find where New South Wales's western rivers flowed
 * Charles Sturt (1828-1830) - attempted to discover inland sea
 * Thomas Mitchell (1831-1846) - Prussian who explored northern and central Australia
 * Ludwig Leichhardt (1842-1848) - explored north and central Australia
 * Edmund Kennedy (1847-1848) - explored Queensland and New South Wales but killed at age 30 by Aborigines
 * Burke and Wills expedition (1860-1861) - led an expedition of 19 men that disastrously failed