LAND EXPLORERS of AUSTRALIA 6 Ludwig Leichhardt
Port Essington
Mitchell River Roper River
Lynd River
Burdekin River
Ludwig Leichhardt 1813 ~ 1848
Darling Downs Brisbane Leichhardt set out on an exploratory journey from Moreton disappeared, without trace, in 1848 while attempting to fi nd a Bay in Queensland to Port Essington in the Northern Territory. route from the Darling Downs to Perth. He successfully completed the trip in fourteen months after Although a poor bushman, Leichhardt was a well respected travelling 4800km. Along the way he named the Dawson, naturalist who contributed much to our understanding of Mackenzie, Isaacs, Suttor and Burdekin rivers, as well as Australia’s fl ora, fauna and geology. Expedition Range and Peak Range. Unfortunately Leichhardt
Edmund Kennedy
Edmund Kennedy arrived in Australia grazing land in central Queensland. In the from Guernsey at the age of 21, and was following year, Kennedy led an expedition appointed as an assistant surveyor in the along the Victoria River, which he renamed Surveyor General’s Department. the “Barcoo”. He also discovered and named In 1845 he was selected as second in the Thomson River. command of Thomas Mitchell’s expedition In 1848, Kennedy attempted to fi nd a which discovered the Victoria River and rich land route from Rockingham Bay, north of Townsville, to Cape York. After a long and diffi cult journey, he was speared during Cape York an attack by hostile Aboriginies just 30 Shelburne Bay kilometres short of his destination. EdmundEd d KKennedyd 1818 ~ 1848 Weymouth Bay His Aboriginal companion Jacky Jacky was the only member of the exploration party to make it all the way to the top of Cape York Rockingham Bay and the waiting ship. 1847 1848 Thomson River
Barcoo River
Cooper Creek
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