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John McDouall Stuart

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John McDouall Stuart (7 September 18155 June 1866), often referred to as simply "McDouall Stuart", was a Scottish explorer and one of the most accomplished of all Australia's inland explorers. [1]

82 relations: Alexander Tolmer, Alice Springs, Anthony Forster (Australian politician), Australian Overland Telegraph Line, Blinman, Blue plaque, Burke and Wills expedition, Canberra, Carclew, North Adelaide, Ceduna, South Australia, Central Mount Stuart, Chambers brothers (pastoralists), Charles Sturt, Coober Pedy, Cooper Creek, Daly Waters, Northern Territory, Darling River, Darwin, Northern Territory, David Livingstone, Dysart, Fife, Electoral division of Stuart, Emigration, Finke River, Flinders Ranges, Frederick George Waterhouse, Freemasonry, Frewville, South Australia, Gold Medal (RGS), Governor of South Australia, Great Artesian Basin, Great Victoria Desert, Griffith, Australian Capital Territory, Gulf of Carpentaria, James White (sculptor), John Hanning Speke, Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensington, Lake Gairdner, Lake Torrens, MacDonnell Ranges, Mary River (Northern Territory), Moleskin, Moolooloo, Mount Lofty Ranges, Murray River, Murrumbidgee River, Neales River, New South Wales, Newcastle Waters, Nile, ..., Northern Territory, Oodnadatta, Opal, Port Augusta, Port Lincoln, Richard Francis Burton, Richard Graves MacDonnell, Royal Geographical Society, Samuel Baker, Scurvy, Simpson Desert, South Australian Register, Stephen King (surveyor), Streaky Bay, South Australia, Stuart Creek Station, Stuart Highway, Stuart Park, Northern Territory, Sturt Stony Desert, Telegraphy, Temple (anatomy), Tennant Creek, The Advertiser (Adelaide), The News (Adelaide), Top End, University of Adelaide, Victoria (Australia), Victoria River (Northern Territory), Victoria Square, Adelaide, W. P. Auld, West Terrace Cemetery, White's Rooms, William Finke. Expand index (32 more) »

Alexander Tolmer

Alexander Tolmer (1815 – 7 March 1890) was a South Australian police officer and Police Commissioner.

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Alice Springs

Alice Springs (Arrernte: Mparntwe) is the third-largest town in the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Anthony Forster (Australian politician)

Anthony Forster (15 May 1813 – 13 January 1897) was a politician, financier and newspaper owner/editor in colonial South Australia.

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Australian Overland Telegraph Line

The Australian Overland Telegraph Line was a 3200 km telegraph line that connected Darwin with Port Augusta in South Australia.

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Blinman

Blinman is a town deep in the Flinders Ranges, in the mid north of South Australia.

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Blue plaque

A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom and elsewhere to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker.

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Burke and Wills expedition

The Burke and Wills expedition was an Australian exploration expedition in 1860–61 of 19 men, led by Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills, with the objective of crossing Australia from Melbourne in the south, to the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north, a distance of around 3,250 kilometres (approximately 2,000 miles).

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Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia.

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Carclew, North Adelaide

Carclew is a Federation style mansion built in 1897, located in the Adelaide suburb of North Adelaide, overlooking the Adelaide city centre city from Montefiore Hill.

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Ceduna, South Australia

Ceduna is a town in South Australia located on the shores of Murat Bay on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula.

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Central Mount Stuart

Central Mount Stuart is a mountain peak situated in the southern Northern Territory, Australia.

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Chambers brothers (pastoralists)

James and John Chambers were early settlers in South Australia who left England in 1836, became wealthy pastoralists and were closely connected with John McDouall Stuart's expeditions across the continent of Australia.

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Charles Sturt

Captain Charles Napier Sturt (28 April 1795 – 16 June 1869) was a British explorer of Australia, and part of the European exploration of Australia.

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Coober Pedy

Coober Pedy is a town in northern South Australia, north of Adelaide on the Stuart Highway.

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Cooper Creek

The Cooper Creek (formerly Cooper's Creek) is one of the most famous rivers in Australia because it was the site of the death of the explorers Burke and Wills in 1861.

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Daly Waters, Northern Territory

Daly Waters (212 metres above sea level) is a small town in the Northern Territory in Australia, about 620 kilometres south of Darwin at the intersection of the Savannah Way and the Stuart Highway.

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Darling River

The Darling River is the third longest river in Australia, measuring from its source in northern New South Wales to its confluence with the Murray River at Wentworth, New South Wales.

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Darwin, Northern Territory

Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory of Australia.

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David Livingstone

David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish Christian Congregationalist, pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of the late-19th-century Victorian era.

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Dysart, Fife

Dysart (Dìseart) is a former town and royal burgh located on the south-east coast between Kirkcaldy and West Wemyss in Fife.

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Electoral division of Stuart

Stuart is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory.

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Emigration

Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere.

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Finke River

The Finke River is one of the largest rivers in central Australia.

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Flinders Ranges

The Flinders Ranges are the largest mountain range in South Australia, which starts about north of Adelaide.

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Frederick George Waterhouse

Frederick George Waterhouse (25 August 1815 – 7 September 1898) was an English naturalist, zoologist and entomologist who made significant contributions to the study of the natural history of Australia.

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Freemasonry

Freemasonry or Masonry consists of fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons, which from the end of the fourteenth century regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.

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Frewville, South Australia

Frewville is a small suburb in the South Australian city of Adelaide.

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Gold Medal (RGS)

The Gold Medal presented by the Royal Geographical Society consists of two separate awards: the Founder's Medal 1830 and the Patron's Medal 1838.

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Governor of South Australia

The Governor of South Australia is the representative in the Australian state of South Australia of Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia.

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Great Artesian Basin

The Great Artesian Basin (GAB), located in Australia, is the largest and deepest artesian basin in the world, stretching over, with measured temperatures ranging from.

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Great Victoria Desert

The Great Victoria Desert, an interim Australian bioregion, is a sparsely populated desert area in Western Australia and South Australia.

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Griffith, Australian Capital Territory

Griffith is an early inner-south suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

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Gulf of Carpentaria

The Gulf of Carpentaria is a large, shallow sea enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded on the north by the Arafura Sea (the body of water that lies between Australia and New Guinea).

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James White (sculptor)

James White (2 December 1861 – 14 July 1918) was an Australian sculptor, winner of the Wynne Prize in 1902.

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John Hanning Speke

John Hanning Speke (4 May 1827 – 15 September 1864) was an English explorer and officer in the British Indian Army who made three exploratory expeditions to Africa.

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Kensal Green Cemetery

Kensal Green Cemetery is in Kensal Green in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England.

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Kensington

Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, West London, England.

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Lake Gairdner

Lake Gairdner is a large endorheic salt lake in the Australian state of South Australia, to the north of the Eyre Peninsula.

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Lake Torrens

Lake Torrens is a normally ephemeral salt lake in central South Australia.

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MacDonnell Ranges

The MacDonnell Ranges, a mountain range and an interim Australian bioregion, is located in the Northern Territory, comprising.

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Mary River (Northern Territory)

The Mary River flows in the Northern Territory of Australia and is a site of the Mary River National Park.

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Moleskin

Moleskin is a heavy cotton fabric, woven and then sheared to create a short, soft pile on one side.

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Moolooloo

Moolooloo Station (also known as Moolooloo and Moorillah Stations) is a pastoral lease that operates as a sheep station in South Australia.

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Mount Lofty Ranges

The Mount Lofty Ranges are the range of mountains just to the east of Adelaide in the Australian state of South Australia.

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Murray River

The Murray River (or River MurrayIn South Australia, the rendition "River Murray" is the most common, as is "River Darling" and "River Torrens".) (Ngarrindjeri: Millewa, Yorta Yorta: Tongala) is Australia's longest river, at in length.

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Murrumbidgee River

Murrumbidgee River, a major tributary of the Murray River within the Murray–Darling basin and the second longest river in Australia.

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Neales River

The Neales River is a watercourse located in the Far North region of the Australian state of South Australia.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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Newcastle Waters

Newcastle Waters is a small settlement off the Stuart Highway in the Northern Territory.

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Nile

The Nile River (النيل, Egyptian Arabic en-Nīl, Standard Arabic an-Nīl; ⲫⲓⲁⲣⲱ, P(h)iaro; Ancient Egyptian: Ḥ'pī and Jtrw; Biblical Hebrew:, Ha-Ye'or or, Ha-Shiḥor) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa, and is commonly regarded as the longest river in the world, though some sources cite the Amazon River as the longest.

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Northern Territory

The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT) is a federal Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.

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Oodnadatta

Oodnadatta, in the Australian state of South Australia, is a small town surrounded by an area of with cattle stations in arid pastoral rangelands close to the Simpson Desert, north of the state capital of Adelaide and 112 m above sea level.

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Opal

Opal is a hydrated amorphous form of silica (SiO2·nH2O); its water content may range from 3 to 21% by weight, but is usually between 6 and 10%.

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Port Augusta

Port Augusta is a small city in South Australia.

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Port Lincoln

Port Lincoln is a city on the Lower Eyre Peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia.

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Richard Francis Burton

Sir Richard Francis Burton (19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat.

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Richard Graves MacDonnell

Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell (name in) (3 September 1814 – 5 February 1881) was an Anglo-Irish lawyer, judge and colonial governor.

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Royal Geographical Society

The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) is the UK's learned society and professional body for geography, founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical sciences.

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Samuel Baker

Sir Samuel White Baker, KCB, FRS, FRGS (8 June 1821 – 30 December 1893) was an English explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist.

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Scurvy

Scurvy is a disease resulting from a lack of vitamin C (ascorbic acid).

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Simpson Desert

The Simpson Desert is a large area of dry, red sandy plain and dunes in Northern Territory, South Australia and Queensland in central Australia.

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South Australian Register

The Register, originally the South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register, and later South Australian Register, was South Australia's first newspaper.

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Stephen King (surveyor)

Stephen King (15 December 1841 – 8 October 1915) was a sketcher, surveyor and explorer.

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Streaky Bay, South Australia

Streaky Bay (formerly Flinders) is a coastal town on the western side of the Eyre Peninsula, in South Australia just off the Flinders Highway 303 km north west of Port Lincoln and 727 km by road from Adelaide.

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Stuart Creek Station

Stuart Creek Station is a pastoral lease that once operated as a sheep station but now operates as a cattle station in outback South Australia.

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Stuart Highway

Stuart Highway is one of Australia's major highways.

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Stuart Park, Northern Territory

Stuart Park is an inner suburb of the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.

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Sturt Stony Desert

Sturt Stony Desert (previously Sturt's Stony Desert) is an area in the north-east of South Australia, far south western border area of Queensland and the far west of New South Wales.

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Telegraphy

Telegraphy (from Greek: τῆλε têle, "at a distance" and γράφειν gráphein, "to write") is the long-distance transmission of textual or symbolic (as opposed to verbal or audio) messages without the physical exchange of an object bearing the message.

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Temple (anatomy)

Temple indicates the side of the head behind the eyes.

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Tennant Creek

Tennant Creek is a town located in the Northern Territory of Australia.

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The Advertiser (Adelaide)

The Advertiser is a conservative, daily tabloid-format newspaper published in the city of Adelaide, South Australia.

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The News (Adelaide)

The News was an afternoon daily tabloid newspaper in the city of Adelaide, South Australia that had its origins in 1869, and finally ceased circulation in 1992.

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Top End

The Top End of Australia's Northern Territory is a geographical region encompassing the northernmost section of the Northern Territory, which aside from the Cape York Peninsula is the northernmost part of the Australian continent.

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University of Adelaide

The University of Adelaide (informally Adelaide University) is a public university located in Adelaide, South Australia.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Victoria River (Northern Territory)

The Victoria River is a river in the Victoria Bonaparte bioregion of the Northern Territory, Australia.

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Victoria Square, Adelaide

Victoria Square, also known as Tarntanyangga or Tarndanyangga, is a public square in the South Australian capital of Adelaide.

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W. P. Auld

William Patrick Auld (27 May 1840 – 2 September 1912), usually known by his initials or as "Pat" or "Patrick", was an Adelaide, South Australian vigneron and wine merchant born in Stalybridge (near Manchester, England), the son of Patrick Auld (1811 – 21 January 1886) and Eliza Auld (née McKinnell, 1806 – 8 July 1873).

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West Terrace Cemetery

The West Terrace Cemetery is South Australia's oldest cemetery, first appearing on Colonel William Light's 1837 plan of Adelaide.

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White's Rooms

White's Rooms, later known as Adelaide Assembly Room, was a privately owned function centre which opened in 1856 on King William Street, Adelaide, South Australia.

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William Finke

William Finke (1814 or 1815 – 17 January 1864) was a prospector and pastoralist in South Australia, remembered as a sponsor, with the Chambers brothers, of John McDouall Stuart's exploratory journeys.

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John M'Douall Stuart, McDouall Stuart, Stuart Expedition 1861-1862, Stuart Expedition 1861–1862, Stuart expedition (1861-1862), Stuart's sixth expedition.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McDouall_Stuart

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