In 1788, with the arrival of the first fleet, little was known about this wide brown land which we now call Australia. It was only through the courage and perseverance of many brave explorers that the Australia we know today was mapped. These explorers travelled into unknown country and waters, naming mountains, valleys, plains, lakes, rivers, deserts and mapping our coastline. They experienced extreme hardship and danger, many even dying, or like Leichhardt, disappearing into the desert, never to be seen again. These brave men opened up Australia to settlement and allowed the colony to expand.
Primary school children searching the Internet for information on Australian explorers often have difficulty finding information suitable for their year level. Hopefully, this page will provide them with an additional resource which they can access for help with school projects.
This page was created by Roma Reilly
Year 5 teacher Benowa State School
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Pictures of explorers and maps of their journeys published as
"Sixteen Explorers Of Australia" by the Bank of New
South
Wales (1965).