Eyre's track in 1840-41 |
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| Title : | Eyre's track in 1840-41 |
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| Creator : | Arrowsmith, John, 1790-1873 | ||
| Place Of Creation : | London | ||
| Publisher : | W.&T. Boone | ||
| Date of creation : | 1845 | ||
| Additional Creator : | Eyre, Edward John, 1815-1901 | ||
| Format : | Book | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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| Description : |
The map shows the extent of the horseshoe of salt lakes which Eyre believed he saw as he travelled north of Spencer Gulf and the Flinders Ranges. He was in part fooled by mirages which merged the many salt lakes of the interior into one vast horseshoe of lake. This would bar exploration to the north of South Australia for 17 years. The map provides a description of the land Eyre traversed, with sources of water indicated. An earlier version of this map was published in 1843 in Papers relative to South Australia. It would be another two years before Eyre's own account of his expeditions was published and included this map. |
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| Related names : | Eyre, Edward John, 1815-1901 |
| Coverage year : | 1839-41 |
| Region : | Flinders Ranges and Far North - Outback |
| Further reading : | Dutton, Geoffrey, The hero as murderer: the life of Edward John Eyre, Australian Explorer and Governor of Jamaica 1815-1901 Sydney: Collins; Melbourne: Cheshire, 1967 Stokes, Edward, The desert coast: Edward Eyre's expedition 1840-41 Knoxfield, Vic.: Five Mile Press, 1993 Eyre, Edward John, Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 ... Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia, 1964 |
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