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Charles Sturt
1795–1869
Best known for leading tough expeditions into inland Australia, this British army officer turned explorer helped reveal the courses of the Murray and Darling river systems. His journeys combined endurance, curiosity, and careful observation, and they became some of the classic exploration narratives of nineteenth-century Australia.
4 Audiobooks
Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia
by Charles Sturt
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete
by Charles Sturt
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume I
by Charles Sturt
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume 2
by Charles Sturt
About the author
Born in England in 1795, Charles Sturt served in the British Army before building his reputation in Australia as one of the colony’s major explorers. He is most closely associated with expeditions that traced important inland rivers and widened European knowledge of the Australian interior.
In 1828–30, he explored the Macquarie, Darling, and Murray river systems, and his work helped show how those waterways were connected. Later, in 1844–46, he led a difficult expedition into central Australia, facing severe heat, illness, and harsh desert conditions.
Sturt also wrote vivid accounts of his travels, mixing geographical discovery with close descriptions of landscape and colonial life. He died in 1869, but his name remains strongly linked with the history of Australian exploration.