Exploration of Australia

Some of the major explorations conducted in Australia.

Pre European settlement:

• Aboriginal exploration and colonization - unknown - 40,000 years ago?
• Joseph Banks
• Jan Carstensz
• James Cook
• William Dampier
• Willem de Vlamingh
• Willem Jansz
• François Pelsaert
• Abel Tasman

Post-settlement:

• William Patrick Auld
• Francis Barrallier
• George Bass
• John Batman
• Thomas Baudin
• Gregory Blaxland
• Robert O'Hara Burke
• Francis Cadell
• James Calvert
• David Carnegie
• Emily Caroline Creaghe
• Allan Cunningham, botanist
• Robyn Davidson
• Louis de Rougemont
• Paul Edmund de Strzelecki
• Jules Dumont d'Urville
• George Evans
• Edward John Eyre
• Ernest Favenc
• Hedley Herbert Finlayson
• Matthew Flinders
• Alexander Forrest
• John Forrest
• George Frankland
• Ernest Giles
• William Gosse
• John Graham
• Augustus Gregory
• Frank Gregory
• George Grey
• John Ainsworth Horrocks
• William Hovell
• Alfred Howitt
• Hamilton Hume
• Robert Logan Jack
• Jackey Jackey
• Alexander Jardine
• Frank Jardine
• Edmund Kennedy
• John King
• Phillip King
• Gerard Krefft
• William Landsborough
• William Lawson
• Ludwig Leichhardt
• John Lhotsky
• Edmund Lockyer
• Carl Lumholtz
• John MacGillivray
• Cecil Madigan
• Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
• Georg Neumayer
• John Oxley
• W. J. Peasley
• Nicholas Pateshall
• François Péron
• Arthur Phillip
• Olive Pink
• John Price
• George Augustus Robinson
• Arthur Bowes Smyth
• John McDouall Stuart
• Charles Sturt
• Watkin Tench
• Michael Terry
• William Tietkins
• Frederick Walker
• William Wall
• Peter Egerton Warburton
• Warrup
• Lawrence Wells
• Charles Wentworth
• William Wentworth
• William Wills
• Tommy Windiitj
• Charles Winnecke

External Link: http://gutenberg.net.au/explorers.html