Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia,

£3,750 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Sturt arrived in Australia in 1827, his regiment in charge of one of the convict convoys, and during the following years he participated in many of the expeditions arranged by amongst others Oxley and Hume which greatly expanded contemporary knowledge of Australia. Some ten years after returning to the continent in 1834 Sturt set out from Adelaide with fifteen men heading towards the Barrier Range. On reaching the Great Stony Desert his expedition was forced to turn back for Adelaide due to the extreme heat and illness. In the months between August 1844 when they left and their return in January 1846 the party covered approximately 3000 miles. Ferguson,1704; Wantrup, 118a.

• Year: 1833

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