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First Fleet - Stories - English
URL: http://cedir.uow.edu.au/programs/FirstFleet/s_1786.html

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Instructions from the Home Secretary, Lord Sydney to Captain Arthur Phillip.

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Francisco Pelsart - English
URL: http://members.iinet.net.au/~rchapman/SwanRvr/European/pelsart.htm

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Pelsart is well known in history, not for what he found, but because he was shipwrecked. The wreck occurred in June, 1629, when his ship, theBatavia, ran aground on Houtman's Abrolhos. Most of the passengers and crew escaped from the wreck, and landed on a small island.

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Grey Company: The Batavia Story - English
URL: http://members.iinet.net.au/~bill/batavia.html

In 1629 the ship Batavia, then on her maiden voyage, sank after running aground on the Houtman Abrolhos Islands some 40 miles off the coast of Western Australia. The events that followed involved the extremes of human behaviour both evil and heroic. The story has recently been brought to life in a TV documentary drama produced by Prospero Productions.

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Captain Alexandro Malaspina - English
URL: http://www.mala.bc.ca/www/discover/capt/capt.htm

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Alexandro Malaspina was born on November 5, 1754 to an aristocratic and distinguished Italian family in Mulazzo, in northern Tuscany. After studying at the Clementine College in Rome, he learned navigation as a Knight of the Order of Malta, and worked his way up to the rank of Captain in the Spanish Navy.

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Discoverers Web: Hamilton Hume - English
URL: http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/hume.html

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Hamilton Hume was born at Parramatta in New South Wales on 18 June 1797, only eleven years after the first European settlement in the country now known as Australia. His father had various jobs connected with convict supervision, and eventually was given land near Appin, south of Sydney. Young Hamilton and his brothers and sister grew up there, and were educated by their mother. Hamilton had a good knowledge of bushcraft, and by the age of 17 was exploring, first to the Berrima district (between Sydney and Canberra), then with Surveyor Meehan discovering the Goulburn Plains and Lake Bathurst.

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Dirk Hartog - English
URL: http://members.iinet.net.au/~rchapman/SwanRvr/European/hartog.htm

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The first of the foreign visitors to the Australian coastline appeared in 1616. This was Dirk Hartog, a Dutch sea captain. Hartog was on his way to Batavia in Java, and he arrived by accident.

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Discoverers Web: Crossing West Australia - Giles, Warburton, Gosse - English
URL: http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/westaus.html

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In 1872, only 10 years after Stuart had crossed Australia from south to north and back, the Overland Telegraph Line was built, almost exactly following his route. The desert area to the west of it was a difficult and not very well-known terrain. The next challenge for Australian explorers thus became to cross these deserts from the telegraph road to the coast.

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John Forrest - English
URL: http://members.tripod.com/romareilly/forrest/john.htm

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John Forrest (1847-1918) was a surveyor who made several expeditions into the centre of Australia. Together with his brother, they became the best known explorers in Western Australia. Both John and his brother were born in Bunbury, Western Australia. Later, in 1890, John Forrest became the first Premier of Western Australia. He was later elected to the federal government in 1901 and was made Baron John Forrest of Bunbury in 1918. By now he was in bad health and on July 30, 1918 he sailed for England for medical treatment.

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Discoverers Web: Antoine Raymond Joseph de Bruni D'Entrecasteaux - English
URL: http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/entrecast.html

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French navigator who explored the Australian coast in 1792 while seeking traces of the lost expedition of La Pйrouse. Strictly speaking, his surname should be rendered as Bruni (or Bruny) d'Entrecasteaux, or alternatively Entrecasteaux, but the heading above is used for the sake of uniformity with most entries in reference works relating to this navigator.

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Discoverers Web: Burke and Wills - English
URL: http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/burke.html

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A prize of 2000 pounds had been set for the first person to succeed in crossing Australia from south to north. Although this was a large sum at the time, only two men set out to try and receive it. One of them was John McDouall Stuart, already an experienced explorer who had made travels to central Australia. The other was Robert O'Hara Burke.

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David, T. W. E. - English
URL: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0814760.html

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Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth, 1858–1935, Australian geologist and explorer, b. near Cardiff, Wales. David came to Australia in 1882 as an assistant geological surveyor. In 1891 he was appointed professor of geology and physical geography at the Univ. of Sydney.

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Flinders: Australian Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com - English
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/f/flinders.shtml

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Matthew Flinders (March 16, 1774 - July 19, 1814) was an English explorer, naval officer and navigator who circumnavigated (sailed entirely around) Australia and mapped much of its coastline. He and George Bass were the first Europeans to realize that Tasmania was an island; they sailed around it.

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Allan Cunningham: Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com - English
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/c/cunningham.shtml

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Allan Cunningham (1791 - 1839) was an English explorer and botanical collector. Cunningham's explorations included Brazil (from 1814 to 1816), eastern Australia (1816 - 1839), and New Zealand (1826).

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BURKE AND WILLS: Australian Explorers - EnchantedLearning.com - English
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/b/burkewills.shtml

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Robert O'Hara Burke (1820-1861) and William John Wills (1834-1861) were Australian explorers who were the first Europeans to cross Australia from south to north. They both died on the return trip, from exhaustion and hunger.

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Ranulph Fiennes: English Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com - English
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/f/fiennes.shtml

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Sir Ranulph Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (March 7, 1944 - ) is an English explorer and author who has led over 30 expeditions to the North and South Poles, the Arabian desert, the Nile, and many other remote places.

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1Up Info - Freycinet, Louis Claude Desaulses de (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia - English
URL: http://www.1upinfo.com/encyclopedia/F/FreycineL.html

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1779–1842, French marine officer. He was assigned (1800) to a French exploring expedition in Australian waters; after his return to Paris (1805) he edited the maps and reports of the journey. In 1817, accompanied by Arago and other scientists, he sailed in command of the Uranie and the Physicienne to make observations in geography, ethnology, astronomy, and meteorology and to collect specimens of flora and fauna. After visiting Australia and the Marianas, Hawaii, and other Pacific islands, Freycinet lost his ship off the Falkland Islands.

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1Up Info - Entrecasteaux, Joseph Antoine Bruni d' (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia - English
URL: http://www.1upinfo.com/encyclopedia/E/EntrecsJ.html

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1739–93, French navigator. He entered the French navy in 1754, fought (1756) at Minorca, commanded (1786) the French fleet of the East Indies, and was appointed governor of Mauritius and the Isle of Bourbon in 1787. While in command of an expedition to search for La Pйrouse (1791–92) he determined the position of Amsterdam island, explored the coastlines of New Caledonia, Tasmania, and New Holland, and located several groups of islands. Many of the charts made by the expedition (particularly those of South Australia produced by Beautemps-Beauprй) were of unusually high standards.

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Юнгхун Франц Вильгельм - Russian
URL: http://www.zoohall.com.ua/findex.php?page=http://zoohall.com.ua/leftframes/ecolo

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1809-64), немецкий естествоиспытатель и путешественник. В 1835-49 исследовал острова Ява и Суматра. Труды по палеонтологии, ботанике, геологии Малайского архипелага.

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Торрес Луис - Russian
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На этом человеке долгое время лежало клеймо мятежника, бросившего своего капитана на произвол судьбы. Сам Торрес оправдывался, говоря, что, напротив, это он оказался брошенным своим капитаном.

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Тасман Абель Янсон - Russian
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(1603-1659) — голландский мореплаватель, исследователь Австралии и Океании. Открыл остров, названный в его честь; установил, что Австралия — единый самостоятельный материк; открыл ряд других островов, проливов.

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