The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888

by Ernest Favenc

1864—C. C. Hunt; exploration east of York, Western Australia.

1865—G. W. Goyder; removed settlement of Escape Cliffs to Port Darwin.

1865—J. G. Macdonald; visited the Plains of Promise.

1864—Frederick Walker; marking a telegraph line from the back of Rockingham Bay to the Norman River, Gulf of Carpentaria.

1866-7—Sir George Strong Nares, in command of H.M.S. SALAMANDER; surveyed the eastern and north-eastern coasts of Australia and Torres Straits.

1869—John Forrest; first expedition to Lake Barlee.

1869—J. M'Dowall Stuart; died in England.

1870—John Forrest; travelled the Great Bight, from Perth to Adelaide.

1871—A. Forrest; took charge of a private expedition in search of new pastoral country.

1872—J. W. Lewis; round Lake Eyre to the Queensland border.