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Gregory Blaxland - English
URL: http://www.davidreilly.com/australian_explorers/blaxland/blaxland,_wentworth,_la

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Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson were wealthy landowners. In 1813, they found a way to cross the Blue Mountains, opening up more farming land to the settlement at Sydney. It was a drought year and new farming land was desperately needed to feed all the people who kept arriving in the colony. Previous to this, the Blue Mountains, which stretched for hundreds of kilometres, had seemed like an impassable barrier - a 1000 metre high wall of rock. Six other expeditions had failed to find a way across the Blue Mountains.

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