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Allan Cunningham

British explorer

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exploration of Queensland

  • Map showing the country of Australia divided into its states and territories with major cities and surrounding bodies of water, including the Indian Ocean, Coral Sea, Tasman Sea, and Pacific Ocean.
    In Australia: An authoritarian society

    …the future Queensland (1823), while Allan Cunningham was the great pioneer of that state’s hinterland (1827). Meanwhile, in 1824–25, Hamilton Hume and William Hovell went overland southward to the western shore of Port Phillip. Charles Sturt in 1828–30 won still greater fame by tracing the Murray-Murrumbidgee-Darling river system down to…

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    In Queensland: Early exploration and settlement

    Henry Miller, accompanied by Allan Cunningham, set out from Britain with 30 convicts and their guards to establish a penal settlement on the site recommended by Oxley. After six months at the site, the settlement was abandoned and reestablished at the site of present-day Brisbane in February 1825. In…

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