1801—Ensign Barraillier; attempted exploration of the Blue Mountains.
1801-2—Matthew Flinders, in the INVESTIGATOR; prosecuted his survey of the coasts of Australia.
1801-2—Captains Baudin and Hamelin, with the French ships NATURALISTE and GÉOGRAPHE; on the Australian coasts.
1802—Lieut. John Murray and Surveyor Grimes, in the LADY NELSON discovered and surveyed Port Phillip.
1803—George Cayley, botanist; attempt to discover pass over the Blue Mountains.
1803—Lieutenant-Governor Daniel Collins, from England, in H.M.S. CALCUTTA, to form a penal settlement at Port Phillip, accompanied by the transport OCEAN. Landed the settlement at "The Sisters," and finally decided that Port Phillip was unfit to meet the requirements of settlement. They proceeded to Tasmania, where they were all murdered at Hobart Town.
1804-5—Lieutenant Charles Robbins and John Oxley, in the cutter INTEGRITY; examined Western Port with a view to settlement; opinion unfavourable.
1813—Messrs. Wentworth, Lawson, and Blaxland succeeded in crossing the Blue Mountains.
1814—Hamilton Hume, with his brother; explored the country round Berrima. His first trip.
1815—Deputy-Surveyor Evans discovered the first Australian inland river, the Macquarie.