1839—Allan Cunningham died in Sydney.
1840—Angus M'Millan discovered Gippsland.
1840—Patrick Leslie, called the father of Darling Downs settlement; settled on the Condamine.
1840-41—E. J. Eyre travelled the Great Bight to King George's Sound.
1841—John Orr and party explored Gippsland.
1841—Stuart and Sydenham Russell form Cecil Plains Station.
1841—Dr. Edward Barker, Edward Hobson, and Albert Brodribb were the first to walk from Melbourne to Gippsland. The present road follows their track.
1842—Stuart Russell discovered Boyne River; journeyed from Moreton to Wide Bay in a boat.
1842-45—Captain Blackwood, in the FLY; continued the surveys of Captains Wickham and Stokes; and made a minute examination of the Great Barrier Reef.
1843—Count Paul von Strzelecki followed M'Millan's tracks when he discovered Gippsland.