For many thousands of years, men had always wondered about the existence of Terra Australis Incognita, ‘the southern unknown land’. In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, great men like Ptolemy and Aristotle had described the possible of a southern continent while in the fourteenth century Marco Polo, a great explorer recorded about a great and rich unknown southern land now known as Australia in his journal. Since then expedition had been set out by Sea Explorer to the southern regions of the world. After the colonization of Australia, in the early 19th century, expedition was made to discover the mysteries in the interior of Australia. On the surface, both of the sea and land explorer are different in term of the reasons of exploration, problems and suffering encounter during expedition and contributions to the building of Australian as a great nation however, in spite of these differences, these two apparently opposite type of explorers also shared several similarities in these aspects.
All expeditions set out by sea and land explorers had its own purposes it be an order from the government, organization or individual purposes. In the Age of Discovery, powerful European countries like France, Holland and Britain all raced to build a great colonial empire thus, sea explorers were sent by the government to find new lands to colonies whereas the land explorer were sent by the government to find new lands for settlement as Australian colonial settlement was rapidly expanding on the coast due to the increasing arrival of free settler who wanted to establish their properties on their own plot of land. Sea and Land explorer’s purpose were dissimilar in that land explorer like Gregory Blaxland intended to find new grazing land for sheep as wool industry dominated Australian’s economy while sea explorers like the Dutch explorers set out to trade and find natural resources like gold and iron ore due to the broke out of industrial revolution in Europe. Meanwhile, sea explorer were also sent by the government to bring glory and fame to the country in the navigational field and the spread of Christianity, which is totally different from land explorer who was sent to find fertile land for agricultural purposes and the best route for line of communication.
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Not only sea expeditions but also land expeditions were encouraged by different organization. The Royal society in London hired James Cook to travel to the Pacific Ocean to record the transit of Venus in Tahiti. On the contrary, the Royal society of Victoria attracted men to discover something new in the unexplored Australia like Charles Sturt, “Father of Inland Exploration”, was determined to solve the mystery of the inland sea. The personal reasons why both land and sea explorers embarked in these dangerous expeditions despite the hardships was because of the glory of achieving something seemingly impossible at the same time, because of the sense of thrilled adventuring in unknown land. In short, early explorers’ intentions to explore around and within Australia were to the benefits the country, organization and oneself.
Early maritime explorer faced many problems throughout their journey in the sea likewise land explorer also had to endure difficulties that were unpredictable like can of worms. Sea explorers had to deal with harsh wet weather like hails, storms, rough wind and sea that could leads to shipwreck. Similarly, land explorer also encountered rough wet weather such as flood and cold nights like Edmund Kennedy’s expedition to explore the east coast of Cape York Peninsula to its most northern point but land explorer also had to face hot summer heat during the day in the outback which is different from the Sea Explorer. Neither sea nor land explorers were spared from the encountering inhospitable and dangerous landscapes. Reefs like the Great Barrier Reefs and Houtman Abrolhos Islands reefs – Abrolhos meaning “open your eyes”-, shallow shoal, treacherous coastlines like Western Australia had cause many tragedies of navigating ships. On the other hand, land explorers had to battle with rough and rugged Australian terrain like swamps, scrubs, deserst and mountains. The Blue Mountains had always been seen as an impassable passage before Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth successful attempt to cross these steep mountains.
The Term Paper on Australia 2
The name of Australia comes from the Latin word Australis, which means southern. Since it lies entirely in the southern hemisphere, Australia is most commonly referred to as down under. Australia, being a country, is also a continent. In land area its the sixth largest for a country and the smallest continent. Australia is a very dry, thinly populated country. Very few coastal areas receive enough ...
Sea explorers just like Land explorer faced water and food shortage . Nevertheless in comparison, sea explorers’ situation isn’t as bad as land explorer’s situation because their ships could stored food and water supplies for a long time even though the foods was unappetizing and the water turned brackish after a long period of time. Sea Explorers as well as land explorers were attacked by Aborigines during their expeditions furthermore, many land explorers and some ship’s crews were killed by the Aborigines as they setting fire at the campsite and by spearing the white explorer. Disease like scurvy and fever also attacked both land and sea explorers. In summary, early explorers had to deal with numerous dangerous and life threatening situations to accomplished their goals and expeditions.
Land and Sea Explorers’ exploration had contributed to the discovery and building of Australia as a developed nation. Sea explorers like Matthew Flinders who circumnavigates Australia had mapped Australian coastlines accurately had put Australia on the map of the world whereas land explorer had mapped the interior of the Australia allowing the society to understand more about the continent. Sea explorers had contributed in naming the gulfs, straits, islands, coastlines, bays, ports of Australia like Bass Strait, Shark Bay and Port Phillips. In contrast, land explorers named mountains, lakes, rivers, and deserts like Murray River, Simpson Desert and Mount Misery. Apart from that, land explorer Charles Sturt also solved the mystery of the inland sea while European maritime explorer solved the enigma of the unknown southern land. Britain was able to claimed Australia and establishes a new settlement due to the deeds of notable Sea Explorer, James Cook in comparison brave effort of land explorers had freed new colony from the coastlines and paved way for inland settlement beyond the Blue Mountains. Successful expedition of land explorer allowed roads to be built and communication lines to be fitted throughout many parts of Australia.
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The Portuguese were the first to discover the East Coast of Australia In Australian history books, it has been thought for hundreds of years that Captain Cook from England was the first to discover the east coast of Australia on 28th April 1770. However latest evidence shows that this historic event is inaccurate. A number of relics and remains have been found which indicate the Portuguese arrival ...
Unlike land explorer, successful expeditions of Sea Explorer like George Bass meant that ships could be able to use a shorter and safer passage from Europe to Sydney through the Bass Strait. The discoveries new unknown species of flora and fauna in Australia were also contributions of both types of explorers as some of these explorer were accompanied by scientist or are scientist themselves. Last but not least, the discoveries of rivers, fertile land and crops by land explorer had helped the colonies agriculturally which differ from sea explorers’ expeditions had confirmed the discovery of coal at Coal Cliff. In brief, although these explorers suffered and faced many problems yet they still continued to contribute to the nation through their expeditions
In conclusion, there were many reasons behind the expeditions of these early explored but despite all these problems and suffering faced by these courageous men, they continued to contribute to their country. Their heroic deeds will continue to be recorded in the pages of history and will be remember by the younger generation for without all these expeditions and willingness of the brave men to explore Australia, the country would not be known by the world or be as developed as today.
