Author: South Australia. Parliament
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Category : South Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Category : Northern Territory
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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Author: Erwin Feeken
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1543401686
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 753

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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.

Author: Ian Francis McLaren
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Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Author: Royal Geographical Society
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 660

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Author: Robert Etheridge
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385423767
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Author: Erwin Herman Josef Feeken
Publisher: [Melbourne : Thomas] Nelson [(Australia)
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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The Gazetteer includes details of who bestowed the place names and after whomn or what they were named.

Author: British museum. Dept. of printed books
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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