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Eyre's 1839 Expeditions
Edward John Eyre made two expeditions into the interior of South Australia in 1839. At the time nobody had been any further than the head of Spencer Gulf. The first expedition, in May, set out from Adelaide. It is not exactly clear how far north he reached before turning back, but somewhere in the Flinders Ranges. The second expedition, in August, sailed to Port Lincoln, and struck out west following the coast to Streaky Bay. Forced back again by inhospitable conditions, he went east and then further north than the previous attempt, eventually finding the lake that is now called Lake Torrens. Eyre made a third trip north in June 1840, this time reaching what is now known as Lake Eyre. A Edward Eyre, fourth trip began in February 1841, this time determined to reach Western Australia. The trek began at Fowlers Bay and reached Albany, Western Australia, Albany in July, a trip of 1600 km (1000 miles). North Having made a tidy profit of several thousand pounds from his second ove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward John Eyre
Edward John Eyre (5 August 181530 November 1901) was an English land explorer of the Australian continent, colonial administrator, and Governor of Jamaica. Early life Eyre was born in Whipsnade, Bedfordshire, shortly before his family moved to Hornsea, Yorkshire, where he was christened. His parents were Rev. Anthony William Eyre and Sarah (née Mapleton).Geoffrey Dutton (1966),Eyre, Edward John (1815–1901), ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Volume 1 (Australian National University), accessed 25 October 2018. After completing grammar school at Louth and Sedbergh, he moved to Sydney rather than join the army or go to university. He gained experience in the new land by boarding with and forming friendships with prominent gentlemen and became a flock owner when he bought 400 lambs a month before his 18th birthday. In South Australia In December 1837, Eyre started droving 1,000 sheep and 600 cattle overland from Monaro, New South Wales, to Adelaide, South Australia. Eyre, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baxter Range
Baxter may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional entities * Baxter Building, in the Marvel Comics universe * Baxter Stockman, in ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' * Baxter, a character in the animated web series ''Hazbin Hotel'' * Mr Baxter, a character in ''The Adventures of Tintin'' Film and television * ''Baxter!'', a 1973 British film starring Britt Ekland * ''Baxter'' (film), a 1989 French horror film featuring a thinking dog named "Baxter" * ''The Baxter'', a 2005 romantic comedy * ''The Baxters'', a TV sitcom 1979–1981 * ''Baxter'' (TV series), 2010–2011 Music * Baxter (electronica band), a Swedish electronica band ** ''Baxter'' (1998 album) * Baxter (punk band), an American post-hardcore band, and the name of their first album * ''Baxter'', a 2000 album in which various New Zealand musicians set 12 of James K. Baxter's poems to music Businesses and organizations * Baxters, a British food processing company * Baxter Aviation, former Canadian airline * Baxt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The South Australian
''The South Australian'' was a newspaper published in Adelaide, the capital of colonial South Australia from 2 June 1838 to 19 August 1851. Between 1838 and 1844, it was published as The ''Southern Australian.'' History ''The Southern Australian'' ''The Southern Australian'' was founded by the Crown Solicitor, Charles Mann, and James Hurtle Fisher. The printer was Tasmanian Archibald Macdougall and James Allen was the editor; they had offices in Rundle Street, perhaps on Allotment 45 on the north side, towards King William Street. The newspaper was founded as an opposition to South Australia's first newspaper, the ''South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register'', edited by George Stevenson. As private secretary to Governor John Hindmarsh (as well as holding a number of other government appointments) Stevenson espoused a strong party line in the pages of ''The Register''. He was also notoriously outspoken against those who disagreed with Governor Hindmarsh, and was taken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Francis Newland
Richard Francis Newland (died 1 August 1873) was a banker and politician in the colony of South Australia, appointed as an acting non-official member of the Legislative Council of South Australia, serving from January 1847 to July 1847. History Newland was manager of the Sydney branch of the Bank of Australasia and in January 1839 was appointed to the same position at the Adelaide branch of the Bank. He resigned in 1843, and at the urging of Hon. John Baker took up a sheep station either on the River Gilbert or the River Light, where he had a flock of 12,000 sheep, whose wool commanded record prices. He was appointed to the Legislative Council in January 1847 while John Morphett was absent on leave. He succeeded Samuel Davenport as appointed non-official member of the Legislative Council. In 1850 he succeeded G. F. Dashwood as Stipendiary and Special Magistrate at Port Adelaide. In 1860 he left Adelaide for England aboard the ''Young Australian''. In 1862 he was employed the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Newland
A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much larger oceans, they do form part of the Earth's water cycle. Lakes are distinct from lagoons, which are generally coastal parts of the ocean. Lakes are typically larger and deeper than ponds, which also lie on land, though there are no official or scientific definitions. Lakes can be contrasted with rivers or streams, which usually flow in a channel on land. Most lakes are fed and drained by rivers and streams. Natural lakes are generally found in mountainous areas, rift zones, and areas with ongoing glaciation. Other lakes are found in endorheic basins or along the courses of mature rivers, where a river channel has widened into a basin. Some parts of the world have many lakes formed by the chaotic drainage patterns left over from the last ice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ceduna, South Australia
Ceduna ( ) is a town in South Australia located on the shores of Murat Bay on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula. It lies west of the junction of the Flinders and Eyre Highways around 786 km northwest of the capital Adelaide. The port town/suburb of Thevenard lies 3 km to the west on Cape Thevenard. It is in the District Council of Ceduna, the federal Division of Grey, and the state electoral district of Flinders. The name Ceduna is a corruption of the local Aboriginal Wirangu word ''Chedoona'' and is said to mean a place to sit down and rest. The town has played an important but minor role in Australia's overall development due to it being a fishing port and a railway hub. History Ceduna is on the land of the Wirangu people. Matthew Flinders, on his voyage in the ''Investigator'', anchored in Fowlers Bay on 28 January 1802. He went on to explore the coast and named Denial Bay, Smoky Bay and the islands of Nuyts Archipelago. He was disappointed to find no r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aboriginal Australian
Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, such as Tasmania, Fraser Island, Hinchinbrook Island, the Tiwi Islands, and Groote Eylandt, but excluding the Torres Strait Islands. The term Indigenous Australians refers to Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders collectively. It is generally used when both groups are included in the topic being addressed. Torres Strait Islanders are ethnically and culturally distinct, despite extensive cultural exchange with some of the Aboriginal groups. The Torres Strait Islands are mostly part of Queensland but have a separate governmental status. Aboriginal Australians comprise many distinct peoples who have developed across Australia for over 50,000 years. These peoples have a broadly shared, though complex, genetic history, but only in the last 200 years have they been defined and started to self-identify as a single group. Australian Aboriginal identity has cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Streaky Bay, South Australia
Streaky Bay (formerly Flinders) is a coastal town on the western side of the Eyre Peninsula, in South Australia just off the Flinders Highway, north-west of Port Lincoln and by road from Adelaide. At the , Streaky Bay recorded a population of 1, 378. The town of Streaky Bay is the major population centre of the District Council of Streaky Bay, and the centre of an agricultural district farming cereal crops and sheep, as well as having established fishing and tourism industries. History For many thousands of years, the area around Streaky Bay has been inhabited by the Wirangu people. In 1627, Dutch explorer Pieter Nuyts, in the '' Gulden Zeepaard'' (Golden Seahorse), became the first European to sight the area. A monument has been erected on the median strip in Bay Road. In 1802, Matthew Flinders named Streaky Bay whilst on his voyage in the '' Investigator''. In his log of 5 February 1802, he notes: "And the water was much discoloured in Streaks... and I called it Streaky B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Lincoln, South Australia
Port Lincoln is a town on the Lower Eyre Peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia. It is situated on the shore of Boston Bay, which opens eastward into Spencer Gulf. It is the largest city in the West Coast region, and is located approximately 280 km as the crow flies from the State's capital city of Adelaide (646 km by road). In June 2019 Port Lincoln had an estimated population of 16,418, having grown at an average annual rate of 0.55% year-on-year over the preceding five years. The city is reputed to have the most millionaires per capita in Australia, as well as claiming to be Australia's "Seafood Capital". History and name The Eyre Peninsula has been home to Aboriginal people for over 40 thousand years, with the Barngarla (eastern Eyre, including Port Lincoln), Nauo (south western Eyre), Wirangu (north western Eyre) and Mirning (far western Eyre) being the predominant original cultural groups present at the time of the arrival of Europeans. The ori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Eyre
E, or e, is the fifth letter and the second vowel letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''e'' (pronounced ); plural ''ees'', ''Es'' or ''E's''. It is the most commonly used letter in many languages, including Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Latin, Latvian, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish. History The Latin letter 'E' differs little from its source, the Greek letter epsilon, 'Ε'. This in turn comes from the Semitic letter '' hê'', which has been suggested to have started as a praying or calling human figure ('' hillul'' 'jubilation'), and was most likely based on a similar Egyptian hieroglyph that indicated a different pronunciation. In Semitic, the letter represented (and in foreign words); in Greek, ''hê'' became the letter epsilon, used to represent . The various forms of the Old Italic script and the Latin al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saltbush
Saltbush is a vernacular plant name that most often refers to ''Atriplex'', a genus of about 250 plants distributed worldwide from subtropical to subarctic regions. ''Atriplex'' species are native to Australia, North and South America, and Eurasia. Many ''Atriplex'' species are halophytes and are adapted to dry environments with salty soils. The genus ''Chenopodium'' is taxonomically a cousin of the genus ''Atriplex''. Certain chenopodiums may be called saltbushes, including '' C. robertianum'' and '' C. nutans''. ''Sarcobatus vermiculatus'', native to North America, is a halophyte plant, and is sometimes informally called a saltbush. File:Atriplex canescens habit.jpg, Four-winged saltbush (''Atriplex canescens'') File:Einadia hastata Brush Farm.JPG, ''Chenopodium robertianum'' berries File:Einadia nutans 1.jpg, ''Chenopodium nutans'' berries File:Sarcobatus vermiculatus (4018712194).jpg, Cone-like structures containing the female flowers of ''Sarcobatus vermiculatus'' See als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilpena Pound
Wilpena Pound – also known by its Adnyamathanha language, Adnyamathanha name of Ikara, meaning "meeting place" – is a natural amphitheatre of mountains located north of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia in the heart of the Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park. It is accessible via a sealed road which continues on to the northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Flinders Ranges town of Blinman, South Australia, Blinman and to the south, Hawker, South Australia, Hawker. Attempts at farming the Pound failed during the early 20th century. Following this, the tourism potential was recognised in 1945. Geomorphology The area is part of the Adelaide Geosyncline. Despite early amateur theories that it was some kind of ancient volcano, the actual Pound is a syncline, synclinal basin, with the fold axis running NNW-SSE through Edeowie Gorge at the northern end and Rawnsley's Bluff at the southern. A corresponding anticline is located in the adjacent Moralana Gorge, with the Elder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
