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Edward John Eyre
Edward John Eyre (1815-1901), explorer and administrator, emigrated to New South Wales from England when he was 17. Settling in Adelaide after pioneering expeditions with sheep and cattle, he made several attempts to find an overland stock route from the city to the west. In January 1840 he learned that a committee was organising an expedition to find a way west. Eyre persuaded them to refocus the expedition on the north, agreeing to pay for half of this bid to 'discover the inland of Australia'. Many gruelling months into the trip, one of his party was murdered, and the rest disappeared. Eyre and his Aboriginal colleague, Wylie, staggered into Albany on 7 July 1841, more than a year after they had set out. Six years later Eyre was rewarded for the journey with the Founder's Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. In 1844, after having served as Protector of Aborigines in South Australia, he sailed home. His career ended contentiously in Jamaica in 1865.
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Edward John Eyre was an explorer.
Englishman Edward John Eyre (1815 - 1901) arrived in Australia in 1883, at the age of seventeen. In 1834 he acquired a 510 hectare property at Molonglo Plains, but struggled with sheep farming. He took his lager overland to Melbourne where he sold them at a profit and returned to Sydney.
He and some companions set out from Sydney heading for Adelaide. He was determined to find a way to cross the interior of the continent overland.
In 1839 Eyre left Adelaide to try to reach the centre of the continent. His way was blocked by swamps or sandhills, and Lake Torrens was mud, so he followed the Flinders Ranges to Mount Hopeless, and turned back.
Once back in Adelaide, he found that an expedition was being set up to open up a trail from Adelaide to Western Australia. Eyre was made leader of the expedition. The group consisted of six white men, including his friend John Baxter, and three Aboriginal people, including his f
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Edward John Eyre (1815 - 1901)
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Son of Anthony William Eyre and Sarah (Mapleton) Eyre
Brother of Caroline Elizabeth (Eyre) Wake, Elizabeth (Eyre) Wooding[half] and Frances Jane (Eyre) Machill
DescendantsFather of Gervas Selwyn Eyre, Edward Broughton Eyre, Ada Austin (Eyre) Gordon, Charles Ormond Eyre, Henry Eyre, May Lilian Eyre and Sydney Frederick Eyre
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Edward Eyre was an Australian explorer.
Edward Eyre was an English explorer of the Australian continent, colonial administrator, and a controversial Governor of Jamaica. He discovered South Australia's Lake Eyre, Eyre Peninsula, Eyre Creek, Eyre Highway (the main highway from South Australia to Western Australia). Other places named in his hon