Australian explorer. Born Scotland. Trained as a civil engineer and aged 23 emigrated to Australia where 1858 - 62 he made 6 expeditions into the interior searching out new pastures and surveying the land. The first explorer to cross Australia - from North Adelaide to a point near Darwin, Adelaide has a map showing his route. His health was ruined and he returned to Britain in about 1862, dying, unmarried, at the house with the plaque.
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John McDouall Stuart
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John McDouall Stuart
John McDouall Stuart, 1815 - 1866, first explorer to cross Australia, lived a...
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John Hammond
Role on the lost expedition: Royal marine on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
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William Goddard
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
Bartolomeu Dias
Portuguese nobleman who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa, in 1488, the first European known to do so since ancient times.
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John Hanning Speke
Explorer. Born Devon. The first European, while on an expedition with Richard Burton to East Africa in 1858, to discover Lake Victoria. On a subsequent journey with James Grant in 1862, he confirme...
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Thomas Plater
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
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Epsom and Ewell Golden Jubilee
A local government district with borough status in Surrey, covering the towns of Epsom and Ewell. The borough was formed as an urban district in 1894, and was known as Epsom until 1934. It was made...
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