Charles Napier Sturt (28 April 1795 – 16 June 1869) was a British officer and explorer of Australia, and part of the European exploration of Australia. He led several expeditions into the interior of …

Dec 10, 2024 · Charles Sturt spent years chasing the myth of an inland sea in Australia. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, ExplorersWeb. In the 1800s, many explorers flocked to the polar …

Dec 29, 2021 · Charles Sturt's quest to find Australia's Inland Sea, covered NSW, SA and Queensland. Learn more on a small group tour.

Imagine carting a whaleboat more than 3500 kilometres over land in search of a mythical ocean with no roads or maps to guide you. This is exactly what the British explorer, Charles Sturt, …

Aug 1, 2021 · Sturt called it a stony desert and it became known as Sturt’s Stony Desert. Ironically this feature was the result of an inland sea, a pre-historic one formed millions of years earlier. …

Charles Sturt was an Australian explorer whose expedition down the Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers (1829–30) is considered one of the greatest explorations in Australian history. The …

Charles Sturt (28 April 1795 — 16 June 1869) [1] was a British Army officer who became an early explorer of Australia. He described the Murray, the Murrumbidgee and Darling Rivers. Sturt …

Feb 4, 2018 · Fed by rumors and stories he heard from the natives, Sturt also believed there was a large “inland sea” in the center of the continent, and he was determined to locate it.

In this year we recall that Captain Charles Sturt is numbered amongst those intrepid explorers of the 19th century whose discoveries opened up the continent of Australia and thereby shaped …

Sturt left Sydney on November 3, and struck the banks of the Murrumbidgee above the site of the present town of Gundagai, near Yass, on November 23. Here they found it to be a rapid …