Charles Sturt

Charles Sturt ( born April 28, 1795 in India, † June 16, 1869 in Cheltenham ) was a British captain and explorer.

Life and work

Charles Sturt in 1827 wanted to discover a suspected in the center of Australia freshwater sea and found the Macquarie River following the beginning of 1828 the Darling River.

1829 appointed Governor of New South Wales, Sir Ralph Darling, him with an expedition to the same destination, he discovered a major river along the Murrumbidgee River, which he, in honor of the Executive Board of the Colonial Department, Sir George Murray, the name Murray River was. The Murray River following he came then to Lake Alexandrina.

From August 1844 to December 1845 he undertook another great trip with John McDouall Stuart and 15 other companions. The expedition was equipped with a dozen horses, 30 oxen, 200 sheep, four cars and a collapsible boat. Sturt discovered while the Cooper Creek and penetrated north-west almost to the center of the Australian continent before. Instead of the suspected fresh water sea he found only desolate and dry land.

His first two trips, he described in Two explorations into the interior of Southern Australia, etc. (London 1833, 2 ​​volumes ), the third in "Narrative of an expedition into Central Australia, etc. " (London 1848, 2 vols ).

According to him, founded in 1989, Charles Sturt University and the Tirari - Sturt stony desert are named.

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