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Best Australian explorer?
« on: September 14, 2013, 06:44:01 AM »
Burke and Wills are pretty famous, but not too clever.   :'(
Cook is still, erroneously, considered to have discovered Australia about 164 years after Janszoon.  ???

Who is the country's greatest explorer?

Issue 14 of 4WD Touring Australia features stories on Sturt and Burke and Wills, both desert explorers.

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Re: Best Australian explorer?
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2013, 07:21:57 AM »
Ernie Dingo - He said, during on of his TV series whilst sitting on Fort Denison in Sydney Harbour, "They say Captain Cook discovered Australia - funny - we didn't know we wuz lost!"
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« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2013, 07:45:52 AM »
                                    ME  >:D :cheers:
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« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2013, 07:48:54 AM »
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Re: Best Australian explorer?
« Reply #4 on: September 14, 2013, 07:53:16 AM »
l am esteemed company ,  ;D
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Re: Best Australian explorer?
« Reply #5 on: September 14, 2013, 07:55:11 AM »
Quote from: speewa158 on September 14, 2013, 07:53:16 AM
l am esteemed company ,  ;D

You are indeed....... ;D
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Re: Best Australian explorer?
« Reply #6 on: September 14, 2013, 08:01:31 AM »
Len Beadell  Gunbarrel Hwy  :cup:
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« Reply #7 on: September 14, 2013, 08:04:19 AM »
Quote from: speewa158 on September 14, 2013, 08:01:31 AM
Len Beadell  Gunbarrel Hwy  :cup:

Yep...and many others.... :cup:
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« Reply #8 on: September 14, 2013, 08:26:11 AM »

Too many to name but the Jardines for exploring the Cape would be up there with the most famous.

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Re: Best Australian explorer?
« Reply #9 on: September 14, 2013, 08:28:40 AM »
Mawson was pretty good....... ;D ;D

Even got his pic on some coloured paper.
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Re: Best Australian explorer?
« Reply #10 on: September 14, 2013, 08:29:47 AM »
Durack in top end of WA  :cup:
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Re: Best Australian explorer?
« Reply #11 on: September 14, 2013, 09:51:21 AM »
Kennedy and Leichardt. :cup:


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Re: Best Australian explorer?
« Reply #13 on: September 14, 2013, 10:58:57 AM »
Major Mitchel , been all over Vic & parts of SA & NSW . lts easier to find a town that dosent have a cairn with his name on it  ;D
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Re: Best Australian explorer?
« Reply #14 on: September 14, 2013, 11:11:51 AM »
McGirr gets my vote.  :cheers:
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Re: Best Australian explorer?
« Reply #16 on: September 14, 2013, 12:32:36 PM »
John Forrest might not be that we'll known in the east but he explored a lot of the western deserts.

I always wonder how Charles Sturt and his party felt  when they got to the mouth of the Murray and found that it didn't flow into an inland sea...disappointed i suspect.

And then they turned around and headed back up the river, against the current and in the middle of summer! In typical Australian explorer style the trip home turned into a nightmare, supplies ran out and Sturt nearly died from starvation and never really recovered his health.

They were amazing men in those days, setting off into the unknown. Today we barely go to the shop without turning on the Gamin!



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Re: Best Australian explorer?
« Reply #17 on: September 14, 2013, 01:26:01 PM »
Quote from: rossm on September 14, 2013, 12:32:36 PM

They were amazing men in those days, setting off into the unknown. Today we barely go to the shop without turning on the Gamin!


Matthew Flinders gets my vote.
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Re: Best Australian explorer?
« Reply #19 on: September 14, 2013, 01:45:18 PM »
Modern times would have to be the leyland brothers........grew up watching those guys, inspired me from a young age, was hard to concetrate at school on the explorers from 150 years ago :)
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Re: Best Australian explorer?
« Reply #20 on: September 14, 2013, 02:31:00 PM »
Gus (AJ) Luck......... that stumped you all didn't it ;D

His book is great "The Outback Trail"
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Re: Best Australian explorer?
« Reply #21 on: September 14, 2013, 05:11:00 PM »
Hard to go past this bloke, our biggest achiever without anyone knowing who he was.
George Hubert Wilkins
I am the bloke who takes 6 months to read a book, this guys story was a few weeks, couldn't put it down. He had 2 Tiker Tape Parades in New york in the same year..... Yet, we don't know of him

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Re: Best Australian explorer?
« Reply #22 on: September 14, 2013, 05:19:25 PM »
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One of the most under rated explorers this great Nation has ever know.
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Re: Best Australian explorer?
« Reply #23 on: September 14, 2013, 05:27:25 PM »
Quote from: Hairs on September 14, 2013, 05:19:25 PM
One of the most under rated explorers this great Nation has ever know.
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I was once away OS and the only Aussie on the job with a Mob of Canadians.
I took DVD's of his 2 series with me, told the Canadians, if you blokes want to know what the real Australia is, watch this bloke, he is a legend.
It wasn't until the 2nd series DVD's that they realised how full of S#@T I am....... ;D
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« Reply #24 on: September 14, 2013, 05:30:23 PM »
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