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=__ Wentworth, Blaxland and Lawson and the Crossing of the Blue Mountains in 1813 __= = Film clip describing early attempts to cross the Great Dividing Range before Wentworth, Blaxland and Lawson =

Film clip by Bill Peach showing and re-enacting the route taken by Wentworth, Blaxland and Lawson

Crossing the Great dividing Range - Wentworth, Blaxland and Lawson, Oxley, Cunningham, Major Thomas Mitchell, Hume and Hovell

Please click on the links below to view items in the Mitchell Library connected with the crossing of the Blue Mountains. This is only a selection. You will lfind other primary sources at the site. Each has explanations and the hand-written documents have transcriptions to make them easy to read.
 * [] || This flintlock musket belonged to Gregory Blaxland. ||
 * [] || ==== This drawing shows where the pass went through the Blue Mountains. ==== ||
 * [] || A page from the diary of George Evans who was part of the party crossing the Blue Mountains ||
 * [] || A painting from 1835 showing one of the accidents that happened as the road across the Blue Mountains was being built. ||
 * [|http://replay.slnsw.artpro.net.au/exhibit/478] [|/] || This is the journal of William Wentworth, describing the crossing of the Blue Mountains ||
 * [] || This picture, from 1814, shows part of the new road built at Cox's Pass. Cox was the manager of the team of 30 convicts who took six months to build the road. ||
 * [] || Map of Blaxland's route across the Blue Mountains in 1813 ||
 * [] || Lawson's journal of the expedition ||

Early Australian Explorers - Ludwig Leichhardt, Edward John Eyre, Burke and Wills, John McDouall Stuart, John Forrest, Charles Sturt

=__**John McDouall Stuart Making the First Crossing of Australia From South to North and Back** Again__=

This website from the Migration Museum of South Australia describes the journey and shows photographs of Stuart's compass, pannikin and smoking cap.

The Migration Museum in Adelaide, South Australia, is well worth the visit for many aspects of social and colonial history.

Open Daily

 * 10am-5pm** Monday-Friday
 * 1pm-5pm** Weekends and Public Holidays (Closed Christmas Day and Good Friday)

Free admission
82 Kintore Avenue, Australia , 5001 (08) 8207 7580 migration@history.sa.gov.au

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