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The Hume and Hovell expedition was one of the most important journeys of explorations undertaken in eastern Australia. In 1824 the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Thomas Brisbane, commissioned Hamilton Hume and former Royal Navy Captain William Hovell to lead an expedition to find new grazing land in the south of the colony, and also to find an answer to the mystery of where New South Wales's western rivers flowed. Image File history File links Sturt_and_Hume_and_Hovell_expeditions. ... Image File history File links Sturt_and_Hume_and_Hovell_expeditions. ... 1824 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Capital Sydney Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Professor Marie Bashir Premier Morris Iemma (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 50  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $305,437 (1st)  - Product per capita  $45,153/person (4th) Population (End of March 2006)  - Population  6,817,100 (1st)  - Density  8. ... Major General Sir Thomas Brisbane, Governor of New South Wales Major-General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, 1st Baronet, GCH, GCB (July 23, 1773 – January 27, 1860), soldier, colonial Governor and astronomer, was born at Largs in Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of Sir Thomas Brisbane. ... Hamilton Hume Hamilton Hume (19 June 1797-19 April 1873) was an Australian explorer. ... William Hilton Hovell (April 26, 1786 - November 9, 1875) was an English explorer of Australia. ...

The party

Apart from Hume and Hovell, there are various references to the following six men who were the other members of the expedition. These men played their own valuable role in making the journey a succesful one. Angel, Fitzpatrick & Barrois were Hume's men, Bullard & Smith belonged to Hovell and because Hovell was one man short, Boyd, who was known to Hume as a well respected horseman, bushman and swimmer, was at the time indentured to the Kennedy family and Hume arranged for Boyd to join the party as one of Hovell's men.

• Benjamin Smith, was Hovell's assigned servant. He later married Sarah Dean, had two children and died at Eastern Creek, NSW in 1837.

• Henry Angel, granted ticket of leave in 1823. Had previously accompanied Hume and Sturt on 1828 Darling expedition.

• Samuel Bullard, was one of Hovell's assigned servants. He never married and died at Penrith, NSW in 1868.

• Claude Barrois (stated as Bossawa in records), became one of Hume's men just before the expedition. He never married and died in the Sydney Convict Hospital in 1841.

• Thomas Boyd, returned to Tumut district and settled on Gilmore Creek. He married, had 12 children and died at 'Windowie', near Tumut, on the 27th of June 1885, aged 86 years. He is buried in the Tumut Pioneer Cemetery, where a headstone marks his grave.

• James Fitzpatrick, who took up land between Cootamundra and Gundagai; later bought 'Glenlee' station near Campbelltown, died at 86.

• There was a least one other man, unnamed, who was Indigenous Australian employed as a potential translator.

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Outfitting of the expedition

The expedition is considered to have been privately funded however a grant of 50 pounds was granted by Sir Thomas Brisbane, governor, for provisions.

The supplies were as follows: 7 pack saddles, 1 riding saddle, 8 stand of arms, 6 pounds of gunpowder, 60 rounds of ball cartridge, 6 blankets, 2 tarpaulins, 1 tent, 1200lbs flour, 350lbs pork, 170lbs sugar, 38lbs tea & coffee, 8lbs tobacco, 16lbs soap, 20lbs salt, 1 false horizon, 1 sextant, 3 pocket compasses, 1 pram, and cooking utensils.

Departure

The party set out from Appin near Sydney in October 1824, and travelled south to the Murrumbidgee River near the site of Tumut. They crossed "a noble stream" which they named the Hume (now the Murray River) near the site of Albury, and then advanced into what is now Victoria. The Murray River, or River Murray, is Australias second-longest river in its own right (the longest being its tributary the Darling). ... Albury is the name of several places: Australia: Albury, New South Wales United Kingdom: Albury, Hertfordshire, England Albury, Surrey, England Canada: Albury, Ontario, Canada This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Slogan or Nickname: Garden State, The Place to Be Motto(s): Peace and Prosperity Other Australian states and territories Capital Melbourne Government Constitutional monarchy Governor David de Kretser Premier Steve Bracks (resigning effective 30th July 2007) (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 37  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05...

Thomas Boyd was a noted swimmer and is acknowledged as being the first white man to swim across the Murray River. This he did with a rope between his teeth, as the party needed to establish a link to the other side of the then raging river so as they could traverse it safely with all their animals and gear.

They proceeded south crossing the Ovens River and Goulburn River by a route further to the east of the Hume Highway and closer to the foothills of Mount Buffalo. They reach the Great Dividing Range in rugged country around Mount Disappointment by following an aboriginal track roughly along the Yea to Kinglake road. They were disturbed by aboriginal burning off and were unable to find a way through the range. They then retraced their steps to what is now the Straths Creek road at Flowerdale then moved west along Sunday Creek to Mount Piper near Broadford. The Ovens River at Bright Wandiligong hedge maze Tobacco crops in the Ovens Valley The Ovens River is a river in the Australian state of Victoria. ... Goulburn River is either: Goulburn River, New South Wales, Australia Goulburn River, Victoria, Australia This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The Hume is National 31 from Sydney to Albury . ... Mount Buffalo is a mountain plateau in Victoria (Australia), 200 km northeast of Melbourne. ... The Great Divide runs around the entire eastern and south-eastern edge of Australia The Great Dividing Range, also known as the Eastern Highlands, is Australias most substantial mountain range. ... Mount Disappointment is a mountain in Los Angeles County, California with a summit elevation of 1817 meters (5960 feet). ... Yea can refer to: Look up yea in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Kinglake is a town in Victoria, Australia. ... Flowerdale is the name of several localities in Australia Flowerdale, Tasmania Flowerdale, Victoria Category: ... Sunday Creek is a stream in Athens County, Ohio, and partly in Morgan County, that is a tributary to the Hocking River. ... Broadford is the second-largest town on the Isle of Skye. ...

Crossing the Great Divide

Hume and Hovell tried again to breach the Great Divide and finally succeeded at Pretty Sally. In the next few days they crossed the volcanic plains north and west of Melbourne which the aboriginals called 'Iramoo'. They continued southwards towards the junction of the Maribyrnong River and Jacksons Creek. Melbourne (pronounced ) is the second most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 3. ... Maribyrnong river at West Essendon The Maribyrnong River rises about 50 km north of Melbourne Victoria (Australia), near Mount Macedon. ...

Soon they arrived at Corio Bay near the present site of Geelong. Because of damaged instruments the believed they had reached Western Port, the large bay further east which had been discovered by Matthew Flinders and George Bass in 1798. Twenty-two years later, in 1825, James Meehan, who had accompanied John Murray in exploring Port Phillip Bay 18 month earlier, was to tell Hume that there were no large islands in Port Phillip, and that therefore had reached Port Phillip, not Western Port as Hovell had insisted. Boats on Corio Bay, overlooking Geelong Corio Bay, one of numerous bays in Port Phillip lies in the southwest part of Port Phillip, and is the bay on which abuts Geelong, the second largest city in Victoria, Australia. ... - - Nickname: City by the Bay Geography Area: 1,240 km² Coordinates: Time Zone UTC +10:00 Population (2003) 200,067 Among Australian cities: Density: persons/km² Political Mayor: Shane Dowling Governing body: City of Greater Geelong Geelong is a port city of 200,067 people (2003 census) located on Corio... Captain Matthew Flinders RN (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was one of the most accomplished navigators and cartographers of his age. ... George Bass George Bass, British naval surgeon and explorer of Australia (1771 – unknown, post 1803), was born at Aswarby, a hamlet near Sleaford Lincolnshire and was educated at Boston Grammar School. ... John Murray (c. ...

They spent three days recuperating before retracing their steps back to Sydney arriving back 18 January 1825. The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4. ...

Return to Sydney

Relations between the "currency lad" (native-born) Hume and the aloof Englishman Hovell had deteriorated, and they raced each other back to Sydney to claim credit for their discoveries. They arrived in January, and were both rewarded with large land grants by Governor Brisbane. They later published conflicting accounts of the journey, each claiming leadership, but today Hume is much the better remembered of the two.

The Hume and Hovell expedition disproved the widely held view that the interior of Australia was an uninhabitable wilderness. They found abundant well-watered grazing land between the Murrumbidgee and the Murray, and also in Victoria. Soon streams of settlers were following their route, which is now the Hume Highway from Sydney to Melbourne via Albury. But their expedition only deepened the mystery of the western rivers.

The route

Monuments

Beveridge, Victoria

The Beveridge Monument was built to mark the location at which Hume & Hovell first sighted the sea. Beveridge is a town in Victoria, Australia, located along the Hume Highway, 42 kilometres north of Melbourne in the Mitchell Shire. ...

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Lara, Victoria

Monument at Lara. Lara is a semi-rural township in the state of Victoria in Australia. ...

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References

Hume and Hovell, 1824. Edited by Alan E. I. Andrews: Blubber Head Press, Hobart, 1981.