Has Poole found the inland sea? |
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| Title : | Has Poole found the inland sea? |
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| Creator : | Eyre, Edward John, 1815-1901 | ||
| Source : | Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1: ..., vol. 2, p. 133 | ||
| Place Of Creation : | London | ||
| Publisher : | T. and W. Boone | ||
| Date of creation : | 1845 | ||
| Additional Creator : | Sturt, Charles, 1795-1869 | ||
| Format : | Book | ||
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Sturt concludes his letter to his friend John Morphett. James Poole has returned from an advance party and reports seeing a vast area of sea: Sturt will be able to sail the boat upon it and explore the interior. Edward Eyre returns to his concluding remarks in his account of his explorations. He considers that until Sturt returns from his expedition and can confirm the discovery of the inland sea that he, Eyre, still believes an inland sea is unlikely, despite his respect and friendship for Sturt. Unfortunately James Poole had been fooled by a mirage, just as Eyre himself had been fooled by mirage and heat haze into believing that a great horseshoe shaped salt lake barred his progress to the north of South Australia. There were many salt lakes, but there were paths between them. It would take until 1858 to show this. And it would be more years again before the inland sea was finally disproven once and for all. |
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| Related names : | Sturt, Charles, 1795-1869 James Poole, d. 1845 Eyre, Edward John, 1815-1901 |
| Coverage year : | 1844-45 |
| Place : | Central Australia |
| Further reading : | Cumpston, J. H. L. The inland sea and the great river: the story of Australian exploration Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1964 Sturt, Charles, Narrative of an expedition into Central Australia: performed under the authority of Her Majesty's Government, during the years 1844, 5, and 6, together with a notice of the Province of South Australia, in 1847 New York: Greenwood Press, [1969] The central Australian expedition, 1844-1846: the journals of Charles Sturt edited by Richard C. Davis London: Hakluyt Society, 2002 Stokes, Edward, To the inland sea: Charles Sturt's expedition 1844-45 Melbourne: Hutchinson of Australia, 1986 |
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| Exhibitions and events : | State Library of South Australia: Mortlock Wing. Taking it to the edge August 2004- |
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