Charles Sturt
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Excerpt from Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, by Charles Sturt. In November 1829 Sturt set out to further explore the western rivers and to determine where the Darling flowed. He hoped that the rivers drained into a central sea. His subsequent discovery of the Murrumbidgee-Murray-Darling river system, and his journey down the Murray to Lake Alexandrina and back, established him as Australia’s pre-eminent explorer. He described fertile river flats between the lower Murray and the Mount Lofty Ranges in his book "Two expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia" (1833)
