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Explorers of Australia

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Abel Tasman
Dutch seafarer, explorer and merchant (1603–1659)
William Dampier
British pirate and explorer (1651-1715)
Joseph Banks
English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences (1743-1820)
Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse
French Navy officer and explorer (1741–1788)
John Franklin
British naval officer and explorer (1786–1847)
Willem Janszoon
Dutch navigator and colonial governor (c.1570–c.1630)
Willem Schouten
Dutch explorer
Ludwig Leichhardt
German explorer of Australia (1813-1848)
Luís Vaz de Torres
Spanish explorer
Nicolas Baudin
French explorer (1754-1803)
John McDouall Stuart
British explorer (1815-1866)
Charles Sturt
Australian explorer (1795-1869)
Ferdinand von Mueller
German-Australian botanist (1825–1896)
Dirk Hartog
Dutch explorer
George Grey
British soldier, explorer, colonial administrator and writer (1812–1898)
Paweł Strzelecki
Polish explorer and geologist (1797–1873)
Robert O'Hara Burke
Australian explorer (1821–1861)
Tobias Furneaux
Royal Navy officer and explorer (1735-1781)
Allan Cunningham
British botanist (1791-1839)
John Oxley
Australian politician
William Hobson
first Governor of New Zealand and co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi (1792-1842)
Thomas Mitchell
Scottish surveyor and explorer of south-eastern Australia (1792–1855)
Thomas Baines
British expedition artist (1820-1875)
Hamilton Hume
Australian explorer (1797–1873)
Phillip Parker King
British Royal Navy officer and early explorer of the Australian and Patagonian coasts (1791–1856)
Ernest Giles
explorer (1835-1897)
François Péron
French scientist and explorer
Charles von Hügel
Austrian noble, army officer, diplomat, botanist, and explorer (1795–1870)
Augustus Charles Gregory
Australian explorer (1819-1905)
Jan Carstenszoon
17th century Dutch explorer of New Guinea and Australia
Paul Wilhelm, Duke of Württemberg
German duke and naturalist (1797–1860)
William Charles Wentworth
Australian poet, explorer, journalist and politician (1790-1872)
Gregory Blaxland
English explorer and pastoralist in New South Wales, Australia (1778-1853)
John Batman
Australian settler and explorer (1801-1839)
William John Wills
British surveyor (1834–1861)
Robyn Davidson
Australian writer
James Stirling
British naval officer and colonial administrator (1791–1865)
William Paterson
Scottish soldier and botanist in Tasmania (1755-1810)
Eric Mjöberg
Swedish zoologist and ethnographer (1882–1938)
Gerard Krefft
German-Australian zoologist and palaeontologist (1830-1881)
Cecil Madigan
Australian geologist, explorer and botanical collector (1889–1947)
William Gosse
Australian explorer (1842-1881)
Watkin Tench
Royal Marines general (1758-1833)
John Gilbert
English naturalist and explorer (1812-1845)
James Hingston Tuckey
Anglo-Irish explorer (1776-1816)
Robert D. FitzGerald
surveyor, ornithologist, botanist and poet (1830-1892)
John Lort Stokes
Welsh officer of the British Royal Navy, sailed with Charles Darwin (1811-1885)
Charles Fraser
Australian botanist and explorer (1788–1831)
George Caley
English botanist and explorer in Australia (1770-1829)
David Lindsay
Australian explorer and surveyor (1856–1922)
George Evans
Australian explorer (1780–1852)
Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin
French Navy officer
Edmund Kennedy
Australian explorer
James Grant
British Royal Navy officer and navigator
Herman Spöring Jr.
Finnish explorer, draughtsman, botanist, and naturalist (1733-1771)
Edmund Lockyer
British soldier and explorer of Australia
Alexander Forrest
Australian explorer, politician and botanical collector (1849-1901)
James King
officer of the Royal Navy; served under James Cook (1750-1784)
John Murray
Royal Navy officer, explorer of Australia, and surveyor
William Blandowski
German zoologist who worked in Australia (1822-1878)