Author: John McKinlay
Publisher: Friends of State Library of South Australia
ISBN: 9781876154233
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Author: John McKinlay
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Category : Northern Territory
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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Author: John MACKINLAY
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Languages : en
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Author: Alan Day
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 081086326X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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This engaging reference examines the history of, the search for, and the discovery of Australia, taking full account of the evidence for and the speculation surrounding possible earlier contacts by the Ancient Egyptians, Arabs, and Chinese seamen. Day brings the expeditions to life, expressing the desires that drove great sea captains deeper into turbulent waters searching for caches of spice, silks, and precious metals. Covers a wide variety of topics, including _ Seamen from eight nations _ The recovery of storm wrecked ships _ Diplomatic treaties _ Priority of discovery disputes _ Military and civil explorers and surveyors _ Topographical features _ Geographical terms and places _ Rivers and river system

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Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Papers of John McKinlay, explorer and Northern Territory land agent, comprising his diaries of 1861-1862 on the Burke Relief Expedition, and trip to Palmerston in 1870 on the 'Bengal', two vocabularies of aboriginal dialects in the Northern Territory gathered during his expedition in 1866, correspondence including letters relating to Northern Territory land orders, notebooks and other papers relating to Palmerston (N.T.) land orders, a hand drawn map of mid-north coast of Queensland passed through by the Burke Relief Expedition in 1862 OUTSIZE (small cabinet), copy of his 1863 marriage certificate, letter of attorney to act for his brother Ellar McKellar McKinlay, papers relating to coffee plantation in the N.T., shares and gold mining regulations, newspaper cuttings relating to Broken Hill mines, and objects probably collected or used by McKinlay on his explorations in the north of Australia (list only available, fragile items in RESERVE 1)

Author: Erwin Feeken
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1543401686
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 798

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The map of Australia abounds with fascinating geographical place-names, the origins of which have, for long, been hidden in the journals of our early explorers. Now after nine years of research, Erwin Feeken, a highly qualified cartographer, and his wife, Gerda, have finalised the first complete record of Australian geographical place-names and the most comprehensive general reference work on Australian exploration ever published. In European Discovery and Exploration of Australia, there are twenty-three beautifully drawn four-colour maps plus index showing the routes of more than 120 explorers with the locality of their named features numbered to accord with a Key to the Maps. The place-names in the Key have been numbered approximately in chronological order of their naming, though places found during a single expedition have been grouped together. There is also a gazetteer containing over four thousand place-names alphabetically arranged with notes on their origins. The map reference numbers (in brackets) form a cross-reference with the Key to the Maps. The work is introduced by a foreword from Lord Casey and an essay on the nature of Australian exploration by Professor O. H. K. Spate, director of the Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. The text, comprising a survey of Australian exploration, is arranged in the form of biographies of the explorers (describing, for the first time, several almost unknown figures) with emphasis on their expeditions and under the following headings: “The Approach to Australia”; “Exploration before Settlement, 1606–1788”; “From Botany Bay to the Blue Mountains, 1788–1813”; “Land and Sea Expeditions, 1813–1901.” This section of the book is very fully illustrated with 18 full-colour plates and some 150 black-and-white photographs, mostly reproductions of early prints. Concluding the book are bibliographies of sources and references, a list of illustrations, and an index of explorers and ships. The comprehensive nature of this work will ensure that it becomes a valuable reference book for students, while the text and illustrations will appeal to all who are interested in our history. Collectors of Australiana will welcome this most attractive addition to the ever-increasing number of available publications.

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Category : Explorers
Languages : en
Pages : 10

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Author: South Australia. Parliament
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Category : South Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 768

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Author: Dane Kennedy
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674075013
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365

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For a British Empire that stretched across much of the globe at the start of the nineteenth century, the interiors of Africa and Australia remained intriguing mysteries. The challenge of opening these continents to imperial influence fell to a proto-professional coterie of determined explorers. They sought knowledge, adventure, and fame, but often experienced confusion, fear, and failure. The Last Blank Spaces follows the arc of these explorations, from idea to practice, from intention to outcome, from myth to reality. Those who conducted the hundreds of expeditions that probed Africa and Australia in the nineteenth century adopted a mode of scientific investigation that had been developed by previous generations of seaborne explorers. They likened the two continents to oceans, empty spaces that could be made truly knowable only by mapping, measuring, observing, and preserving. They found, however, that their survival and success depended less on this system of universal knowledge than it did on the local knowledge possessed by native peoples. While explorers sought to advance the interests of Britain and its emigrant communities, Dane Kennedy discovers a more complex outcome: expeditions that failed ignominiously, explorers whose loyalties proved ambivalent or divided, and, above all, local states and peoples who diverted expeditions to serve their own purposes. The collisions, and occasional convergences, between British and indigenous values, interests, and modes of knowing the world are brought to the fore in this fresh and engaging study.

Author: L. F. S. Browne
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ISBN: 9780724507818
Category : Northern Territory
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Text of a talk given by the author in April 1992 at Darwin's State Library of the Northern Territory, as part of the 'Under the Banyan Tree' series of lunchtime entertainments. Traces the movements of John McKinlay, who explored the Territory in the 1860s. Browne's research included practical field trips to discover McKinlay's camp sites. Referenced.