The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work
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Ernest Favenc (1845-1908) was an explorer of Australia. Favenc arrived in New South Wales in 1864, and, after working in the pastoral industry in the frontier squatting districts of Queensland, In July 1878, he was selected to explore the country along the western border of Queensland to Darwin to evaluate the possibility of connecting the Queensland Railways to Port Darwin. The journey took him six months, and he reported that such a line would be feasible. In the early 1880s he also undertook expeditions in the country to the south of the Gulf of Carpentaria and north-west of Western Austral...
Chapters (91)
- THE EXPLORERS OF AUSTRALIA
- AND THEIR LIFE-WORK.
- ERNEST FAVENC,
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- THE MAKERS OF AUSTRALASIA.
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
- BIBLIOGRAPHY.
- INTRODUCTION.
- CONTENTS.
- ILLUSTRATIONS.
- MAPS AND PLANS.
- PART 1. EASTERN AUSTRALIA.
- CHAPTER 1. ORIGINS.
- 1.1. GOVERNOR PHILLIP.
- 1.2. CAPTAIN TENCH.
- 1.3. THE BLUE MOUNTAINS: BARALLIER.
- 1.4. THE BLUE MOUNTAINS: BLAXLAND.
- CHAPTER 2. GEORGE WILLIAM EVANS.
- 2.1. FIRST INLAND EXPLORATION.
- 2.2. THE LACHLAN RIVER.
- 2.3. THE UNKNOWN WEST.
- CHAPTER 3. JOHN OXLEY.
- 3.1. GENERAL BIOGRAPHY.
- 3.2. HIS FIRST EXPEDITION.
- 3.3. THE LIVERPOOL PLAINS.
- 3.4. THE BRISBANE RIVER.
- CHAPTER 4. HAMILTON HUME.
- 4.1. EARLY ACHIEVEMENTS.
- 4.2. DISCOVERY OF THE HUME OR MURRAY.
- CHAPTER 5. ALLAN CUNNINGHAM.
- 5.1. COASTAL EXPEDITIONS.
- 5.2. PANDORA'S PASS.
- 5.3. THE DARLING DOWNS.
- CHAPTER 6. CHARLES STURT.
- 6.1. EARLY LIFE.
- 6.2. THE DARLING.
- 6.3. THE PASSAGE OF THE MURRAY.
- CHAPTER 7. SIR THOMAS MITCHELL.
- 7.1. INTRODUCTORY.
- 7.2. THE UPPER DARLING.
- 7.3. THE PASSAGE OF THE DARLING.
- 7.4. AUSTRALIA FELIX.
- 7.5. DISCOVERY OF THE BARCOO.
- CHAPTER 8. THE EARLY FORTIES.
- 8.1. ANGAS McMILLAN AND GIPPSLAND.
- 8.2. COUNT STRZELECKI.
- 8.3. PATRICK LESLIE.
- 8.4. LUDWIG LEICHHARDT.
- CHAPTER 9. EDMUND B. KENNEDY.
- 9.1. THE VICTORIA AND COOPER'S CREEK.
- 9.2. A TRAGIC EXPEDITION.
- CHAPTER 10. LATER EXPLORATION IN THE NORTH-EAST.
- 10.1. WALKER IN SEARCH OF BURKE AND WILLS.
- 10.2. BURDEKIN AND CAPE YORK EXPEDITIONS.
- PART 2. CENTRAL AUSTRALIA.
- CHAPTER 11. EDWARD JOHN EYRE.
- 11.1. SETTLEMENT OF ADELAIDE AND THE OVERLANDERS.
- 11.2. EYRE'S CHIEF JOURNEYS.
- CHAPTER 12. ATTEMPTS TO REACH THE CENTRE.
- 12.1. LAKE TORRENS PIONEERS AND HORROCKS.
- 12.2. CAPTAIN STURT.
- CHAPTER 13. BABBAGE AND STUART.
- 13.1. B. HERSCHEL BABBAGE.
- 13.2. JOHN MCDOUALL STUART.
- CHAPTER 14. BURKE AND WILLS.
- CHAPTER 15. THE RELIEF EXPEDITIONS AND ATTEMPTS TOWARDS PERTH.
- 15.1. JOHN MCKINLAY.
- 15.2. WILLIAM LANDSBOROUGH.
- 15.3. P.E. WARBURTON.
- 15.4. WILLIAM CHRISTIE GOSSE.
- CHAPTER 16. TRAVERSING THE CENTRE.
- 16.1. ERNEST GILES.
- 16.2. W.H. TIETKINS AND OTHERS.
- PART 3. THE WEST.
- CHAPTER 17. ROE, GREY, AND GREGORY.
- 17.1. ROE AND THE PIONEERS.
- 17.3. AUGUSTUS C. GREGORY.
- CHAPTER 18. A.C. AND F.T. GREGORY.
- 18.1. A.C. GREGORY ON STURT'S CREEK AND THE BARCOO.
- 18.2. FRANK T. GREGORY.
- CHAPTER 19. FROM WEST TO EAST.
- 19.1. AUSTIN.
- 19.2. SIR JOHN FORREST.
- 19.3. ALEXANDER FORREST.
- CHAPTER 20. LATER EXPLORATION IN THE WEST.
- 20.1. CAMBRIDGE GULF AND THE KIMBERLEY DISTRICT.
- 20.2. LINDSAY AND THE ELDER EXPLORING EXPEDITION.
- 20.3. WELLS AND CARNEGIE IN THE NORTHERN DESERT.
- 20.4. HANN AND BROCKMAN IN THE NORTH-WEST.
- INDEX OF NAMES OF PERSONS.
- INDEX OF PLACE NAMES.
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