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Edward John Eyre
Edward John Eyre (1815-1901), together with his aboriginal friend Wylie, was the first man to cross southern Australia from east to west, travelling across the Nullarbor Plain from Adelaide to Albany. Eyre was born in England where his father was a minister. He came to Australia when he was seventeen years old.
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Edward John Eyre - Nullarbor Travel Guide Australia
Eyre's truly remarkable crossing of The Great Australian Bight and the Nullarbor Plain is the feat for which he is best remembered. In the full heat of summer and the depths of an Australian winter (1840-41), Edward John Eyre explored the rugged and unforgiving coastline between Streaky Bay on South Australia's west coast, and King George's Sound - present day Albany - in Western Australia. In all a distance of over 1200 miles.
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Edward John Eyre
Eyre was born in England, the third son of a vicar. He emigrated to Australia at the age of seventeen after deciding against his previous intention of joining the army. He gravitated to the country and soon took up land near Queanbeyan in New South Wales.
He was only in his mid-twenties when he led the expedition to the north and the west, by which time he had transported stock overland from Queanbeyan to Melbourne, from the Liverpool Plains to Queanbeyan and from Sydney to Adelaide. It was the first time that sheep had been overlanded to Adelaide.
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Эйр Эдуард Джон
(1815-1901) — английский исследователь Австралии. Свои путешествия, в глубь континента начал с 1873 года. Открыл хребет Флиндерс, озеро Торренс, озеро Эйр; в 1840-1841 годах пытался разведать дорогу из Аделаиды в Перт (на западном побережье континента), с большими трудностями дошел до Олбани в бухте Кинг-Джордж, в целом выполнив поставленную задачу. [rus]
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Eyre, Edward John, 1815-1901: free web books, online
Biographical note, Works. [eng]
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Edward John Eyre
Edward John Eyre (1815-1901), together with his aboriginal friend Wylie, was the first man to cross southern Australia from east to west, travelling across the Nullarbor Plain from Adelaide to Albany. Eyre was born in England where his father was a minister. He came to Australia when he was seventeen years old.
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Eyre, Edward John - Bright Sparcs Archival and Heritage Sources
Records relating to Eyre 1859-1941 (2 volumes); autobiographical narrative of residence and exploration in Australia 1832-39 (probably written 1859); narrative of Eyre's journeys and discoveries in Australia 1832-41 (anonomous, n.d.). [eng]
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Eyre, Edward John. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
British colonial administrator. In Australia (1833–45) he was a magistrate, explorer, and writer on Australian geography, and had a reputation for sympathy for the aborigines. After terms as lieutenant governor of New Zealand (1846–53) and governor of St. Vincent (1854–60), he became (1864) governor of Jamaica. He was recalled in 1866 after suppressing a black uprising the year before in which more than four hundred Jamaicans were executed. [eng]
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Eyre, Edward John
British colonial administrator. In Australia (1833-45) he was a magistrate, explorer, and writer on Australian geography, and had a reputation for sympathy for the aborigines. After terms as lieutenant governor of New Zealand (1846-53) and governor of St. Vincent (1854-60), he became (1864) governor of Jamaica. He was recalled in 1866 after suppressing a black uprising the year before in which more than four hundred Jamaicans were executed. [eng]
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