Charles Sturt - Easier Version One of our greatest explorers, Charles Sturt, (17951869) set out to try and findwhere these rivers flowed. Sturt was born in India and educated in England. http://www.davidreilly.com/australian_explorers/sturt/sturteas.htm
Extractions: Click here to go back to the harder version of Charles Sturt The western rivers of New South Wales had been discovered, but no one knew where they flowed. Oxley had tried to solve this mystery by travelling along the Lachlan and Macquarie Rivers, but each time he was blocked by swamps. One of our greatest explorers, Charles Sturt, (1795-1869) set out to try and find where these rivers flowed. Sturt was born in India and educated in England. He joined the army before coming to Australia. On his first expedition he had explored along the Darling River. On his second expedition he decided to find out whether the Murrumbidgee ended in swamps, or flowed into an inland sea. The Party Charles Sturt - leader George Macleay Fraser and Hopkinson - soldiers Clayton - convict carpenter Mulholland and Macnamee - two convicts What They Took horses, drays, pack animals, whale boat eight sheep cattle flour and tea meat in casks Left Sydney 3 November 1829 Sturt travelled through country in which there was no white settlement. He was in Aboriginal tribal lands and met many aborigines during his journey. On 11 December he came upon some friendly aborigines and gave them gifts. They told him of a large river which flowed to the south-west. Reaches the Murrumbidgee 25 December 1829: Sturt finds that the Lachlan flows into the Murrumbidgee.
Charles Sturt Captain Charles Sturt (17951869) was born in India in 1795. This was about thesame time that Bass Flinders started to explore Australia s coastline. http://www.davidreilly.com/australian_explorers/sturt/sturt.htm
Extractions: Click here for an easier version Governor Darling sent Sturt, together with Hamilton Hume to follow and map the Macquarie River. They got as far as the Darling River which they named, but were unable to track the river any further, as the surrounding country was in the grip of a terrible drought and the streams had dried up. However, he had proved that northern New South Wales was not a giant inland sea. His next expedition was in 1829 when he persuaded Governor Darling to allow him to follow the Murrumbidgee, which had been discovered by Hume and Hovell. Sturt ordered his men to load their guns ready for war, when he noticed another party of aboriginals plunge into the river from the opposite bank and swim towards the hostile natives. These were the same friendly aboriginals who had travelled with Sturt for the past few days, and they were able to make peace. The explorers were then able to proceed. Before long, Sturt discovered the lower reaches of the Darling, which was now in full flow, unlike the previous year. This meant that at last the mystery of the inland rivers was solved. Sturt proved that the west-flowing rivers eventually turned south to the ocean and there was no inland sea. On February 4 1830, the party sighted seagulls. Aboriginals told them that the ocean was nearby and on February 9, they sailed into a lake which Sturt named Alexandrina. A few days later, they found the point where the Murray flowed into the sea and since they could not sight any ships which might take them back to Sydney, they started their long journey rowing back to their depot on the Murrumbidgee.
Extractions: Original drawing for the plate facing p.266 in his: Narrative of an expedition into Central Australia. London, 1849. Vol. 1.; Inscribed on reverse: No.5, The Depot Glen in lat. 29.40ý sS. ... long. ¹48ý sE.; Exhibited: "Travellers Art", National Library of Australia, 12 June 2003-21 September 2003.
Charles Sturt Charles Sturt (17951869). Read Two Expeditions into the Interior of SouthernAustralia 1828-1831 Read Expedition into Central Australia 1844-1846. http://gutenberg.net.au/pages/sturt.html
Extractions: Read Expedition into Central Australia 1844-1846 A severe drought in New South Wales in 1826-7-8 led to the discovery of the River Darling. In 1818, an earlier explorer. Oxley, had been prevented by swamps from continuing his survey of the Macquarie River. Governor Darling, thinking that the prolonged drought might have dried up the swamps, appointed Captain Charles Sturt to complete Oxley's work. Sturt left Wellington, N.S.W., in December, 1828, and, proceeding past the marshes which Oxley had considered to be the termination of the Macquarie, followed the course of the Bogan River, dry except for occasional pools, until in February, 1829, he reached a river which he named the Darling. On a later expedition, Sturt followed the Murrumbidgee River down to its junction with "a broad and noble river" which he named the Murray. Actually it was the same river that the explorers Hume and Hovell had crossed in 1824, and called the Hume. Sturt explored the Murray down to its mouth.
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Adelaide City Charles Sturt Charles Sturt (17951869) was an explorer whose expeditions ledto the discovery of the inland river system of south eastern Australia. http://www.sa.regional.net.au/information/discover/acity.asp?Code=AC108
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Visit Outback NSW SIR Charles Sturt. Sir Charles Sturt (17951869), was a British explorerand colonial administrator in Australia. Following his years http://www.visitoutbacknsw.com.au/legends/sturt.html
Extractions: Much of this speculation centred about the possibility of a large inland sea. This was reinforced by the number of westward-flowing rivers whose outlets were unknown. On November 10, 1828, Sturt and twelve men set out from Sydney to follow the Macquarie River inland. 1828 was a year of severe drought and the river soon turned into swamp country, but the explorers continued north-west and came across a mighty river. Charles Sturt had become the first European to see the river he named the Darling. The group returned to Sydney in April 1829 and Sturt was now more convinced than ever that the Darling and other rivers of the south-east might drain inland. In November 1829 Sturt used the Murrumbidgee River to cut across to the Lachlan River. On the banks of the Murrumbidgee, Sturt and his seven companions put together a boat they had brought with them from Sydney, and proceeded downstream. On January 14, 1830, they entered a wide new river which Sturt named the Murray, and a few days later they sighted another river flowing into it which Sturt excitedly and correctly assumed to be the Darling. In August 1845 when rain eventually came, Charles Sturt and four others set out again but after 725 km were forced to turn back. The men were suffering terribly from scurvy, and Sturt was almost blind. They had reached the edge of the Simpson desert and would almost certainly have died if they had gone any further. By the time they reached Adelaide on January 19, 1846, Sturt was severely burnt by the sun, nearly blind, and had to be carried on a stretcher.
Project Gutenberg: Catalog Search Project Gutenberg Bibliographic Record Author Sturt, Charles. Language English. Subject Sturt, Charles,1795-1869. Subject New South Wales Discovery and exploration. http://www.gutenberg.net/cgi-bin/search/t9.cgi?subject=Sturt, Charles, 1795-1869
Charles Sturt - Biography, Works, And Message Board Captain Charles Sturt (17951869), Australian explorer, was born in India and joinedthe British Army as a young man, seeing action with the Duke of Wellington http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/jsp/db/biography.jsp?authorId=681&authorName=Cha
Other Explorers Of The Region blacks. return to top. Charles Sturt Charles Sturt (17951869), a Britishmilitary officer, made several explorations of Australia. His http://www2.worldbook.com/features/explorers/html/saga_oer.html
Extractions: Robert O'Hara Burke (1821-1861), led the tragic expedition that first crossed the Australian continent from south to north. Burke and 17 other men set out from Melbourne in August 1860. Leaving some men at Menindee and others at Cooper Creek, he and three companions pushed on across the continent. They reached the dense mangrove swamps near the mouth of the Flinders River on the Gulf of Carpentaria in February 1861. But Burke and William Wills died during the return journey near where the township of Innamincka in South Australia was later established. Burke was born in St. Clerans, in county Galway, Ireland. He was educated in Belgium and served eight years in the Austrian army, attaining the rank of captain. In 1848, he joined the Irish constabulary. He emigrated from Ireland to Tasmania in 1853 and later went to Victoria. There he became an inspector of police in the Ovens and Beechworth gold-mining districts.
Australiens Historie Charles Sturt (17951869) Som mange af de andre store opdagelsesrejsendeog eventyrere på den tid, har Sturt en militær baggrund. http://www.australienshistorie.dk/kolonisering/eventyrerne.htm
Extractions: Mange straffefanger flygtede under arbejdet, da de troede at civilisationen ventede dem lige om hjørnet. Man troede, på grund af de mange floder som løb ind i landet fra NSW, endvidere at der måtte findes et stort hav eller sø i centrum af kontinentet. Specielt tørken, men også fjendtlige aborigier, gjorde at mange vendte tilbage til kolonierne, ligesom mange officielle ekspeditioner ikke blev gennemført. Først i 1844 bevises det endeligt, at der ikke er andet end sand og hede i australiens midte. George Bass George Bass kortlægger i årene 1797-98 kysten syd for Sydney til ca. der hvor Melbourne idag ligger og sammen med Matthew Flinders sejler han efterfølgende rundt om Van Diemens land, for at fastslå om der er tale om en ø. Flinders sejler i 1802 hele vejen rundt om New Holland og foreslår i sin bog fra 1814, at man ændrer kontinentets navn til Australien. Charles Sturt (1795-1869) Som mange af de andre store opdagelsesrejsende og eventyrere på den tid, har Sturt en militær baggrund. Han udforsker gennem sit arbejde for guvernøren i Sydney, River Murray og Darling River og foretager sin første rigtige opdagelsesrejse i 1828-30 op ad Macquarie River til der hvor den møder Darling River, for herefter at vende tilbage til Sydney. I 1844 tager han fra Adelaide med 15 mand, med det formål at afklare spørgsmålet om en indsø. På grund af varmen, vender han om 250 km. fra centrum, men viser at der ikke findes vand i nogen overfladisk form.
Australia And Its States, Sports, Food, Animals And Plants The species was first collected by Captain Charles Sturt (17951869) in the bedsof the creeks on the Barrier Range during his journey to central Australia http://www.angelfire.com/al2/Australia/NorthTer.html
Extractions: var cm_role = "live" var cm_host = "angelfire.lycos.com" var cm_taxid = "/memberembedded" Northern Territory Northern Territory adopted their flag on 1 July 1978 even though the Northern Territory was founded as a Federal Territory on 1 January 1911. Its first flag was hoisted on 1st July 1978 when self government was attained. The flag was designed by Robert Ingpen, a Victorian illustrator, and incorporates both the Territorian colors and floral emblem. In the center of the fly is a stylized Sturt's Desert Rose with seven petals on an ochre field. At the hoist is the Southern Cross in white on a black panel. The Northern Territory covers about one sixth of the Australian continent with an area of 1.35 million square kilometers including 6,200 kilometers of coast line. This is equal to the combined areas of France, Italy and Spain. The population is 170,000 people and they live mainly in the centers of Darwin, Katherine, Tennant Creek and Alice Springs, however despite its size, the Northern Territory represents less than two percent of Australia's population. The northern quarter of the state is known as the "Top End" and has a distinct region of savannah wood-lands and pockets of rain-forests and the capital Darwin is situated here. The Arnhem Land plateau which is in the north-east, rises abruptly from the plain and continues to the coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria. In the central Australia, the Territory is crossed by the east-west ridges of the Macdonnell Ranges, with heights reaching more than 600 meters. The well known monolith, Uluru formally known as Ayers Rock, is 348 meters high and is near the south-west corner of the Territory. Whereas much of the southern three quarters of the Territory consists of desert and semi arid plain.
Feudal Lordship Of Winterborne Saint Martin - Sturt Charles Sturt (17951869). Henry Gerrard Sturt. Henry Gerrard Sturt, theeldest son of Henry Charles Sturt would be the next lord of the Manor. http://www.martinstown.co.uk/WEBSITE/sturt.htm
Extractions: The family of Sturt Sir Gerard Napier, died childless in 1765, and the estates came to his only surviving daughter Diana, who married Humphrey Sturt , lord of the nearby Manor of Horton. He was Member of Parliament for Dorest from 1745-1786. He owed his wealth to his father, Sir Anthony Sturt, who had been a successful business man and City of London alderman and Victualler to the Navy. The energetic, ambitious and wealthy Humphrey Sturt wanted more than that just one house with a setting of comparable splendour. At Horton he had already created a 200 acre lake, and he resolved to indulge this whim again at Moor Crichel. There was only one difficulty: the cottages of the village were in the way. The site of the fromer village of Moor Crichel now lies submerged beneath the waters of the lake. The entire village was moved to what is now called New Town at Witchampton, leaving only the church (rebuilt in 1850) and a carefully contived landscape in front of the classical mansion. Sturt's solution was simple. The cottages were demolished and the unlucky occupants removed to new cottages at nearby Witchampton. The site of the old village disappeared under the waters of a large crescent-shaped lake, around which was planted an elegantly landscaped park. The residents were moved to houses in nearby Witchampton.
Feudal Lordship Of Winterborne Saint Martin - Sturt Return to the Family of Sturt. (17951869) Soldier and Explorer. The Charles SturtUniversity seeks to identify and collect material on him, in original or copy. http://www.martinstown.co.uk/WEBSITE/sturtchas2.htm
Extractions: Soldier and Explorer Sturt arrived in New South Wales in 1827 and made two journeys into the interior of the continent when he opened vast areas of the Australian hinterland In his first expedition in 1828 he followed the Macquarie River through the Macquarie Marshes to the Darling River traversing the region of the Macquarie, Bogan and Castlereagh Rivers. His second expedition, 1829-30, traced the Murrumbidgee River to its junction with the Murray River and thence to the mouth of the Murray at Lake Alexandrina. Commenting on his own commitment to exploring the interior of New South Wales, Sturt wrote: "A wish to contribute to the public good led me to undertake those journeys which cost me so much. I should exceedingly regret it if it were thought that I had volunteered hazardous and important undertakings for the love of adventure alone . . . though in no case could a career more honourable than that of discovery have been open to me when in 1827 I landed on Australian shores. I sought that career, not, I admit, without a feeling of ambition as should ever pervade a soldier's breast, but chiefly with an earnest desire to promote the public good, and certainly without any hope of any other reward than the credit due to the successful enterprise." In 1838 Sturt overlanded cattle to Adelaide choosing to follow the Murray River rather than the more usual route along the Murrumbidgee River in order to map the course of the Murray above its junction with the Murrumbidgee.
