Question about WA explorers

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Try Hesperian Press. http://www.hesperianpress.com/ They publish most of the books about the old explorers.

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Dunc

Hi Austag

One early explorer that not too many people are aware of is Samuel Grau Hubbe.

My great, great grandfather was a member of his exploration partly and they travelled from Oodnadatta, travelling through the deserts of WA and visiting a number of locations that had never seen a white person before.

I have the Parliamentary report that was made after the expedition and earlier this year, as part of the "Western Australian Explorers' Diaries Project", Hesperian Press published a great book called:

Samuel Grau Hubbe and the South Australia to Western Australia Stock Route Expedition.

Give Hesperian Press a call, as they are the No 1 Experts for WA Explorers and have all the information that you will need.


Happy Research


Stephen

Austag,
You might get more info if you are more specific about the area you are interested in.
Here's some maps you may like anyway.





Cheers
Alan

Interestingly you did not mention Augustus Charles Gregory who explored north from Perth to the Hamelin Pool 1846 to 1848, then from Victoria River to the interior looking for the inland sea 1855 - 6 and then across to Brisbane because he missed his ship.
Kieran Kelly re-enacted this expedition in 1999 and published his book called Hard Country, Hard Men.
As an Aussie, and South Aussie, I would consider Gregory to be one of our greatest explorers.
See If you can get a copy of the book. You will be inspired to visit some ofthe country he traversed I'm sure.

Google project Gutenberg Australia , they have most of the journals on line. You can go through the list and read from a large list.
Lindsay.

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There are books that summarise many Australian explorers.

'Australian Explorers - Unlocking the Great South Land' by Robert Coupe,1998 is one I have.

Quite a lot of Hema 4WD Maps app have explore routes marked, quite pissible they are approx routes I guess.

We drove the northerly tracks fro Cocklebiddy to the Pilbara in June / July and found it very interesting to cross the myriad of interconnected explorer routes all through the state.

These would be the scanned paper Hema Maps great desert series.

A few years ago I wrote an article which lists the main achievements of the key Australian explorers of the 19th Century (not restricted to WA). It includes references to their later life pursuits, and for each explorer you can find out where they are buried, plus obtain details for where you can find any legacy, monument, or namesake that honours them. I have just linked the article to this post, so look at the bottom for the link. Or find it in the Articles section of the site in the Australiana section - Explorers Article

Recently retired surveyor, Trevor Moran, published a map showing g explorer and prospector routes in the Eastern Goldfields of WA.

Trevor Moran map