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Charles Sturt
1795–1869
A soldier-explorer with a gift for endurance, he helped map Australia’s great inland river system and pushed into some of the continent’s harshest country. His journeys made him one of the best-known European explorers of nineteenth-century Australia.
4 Audiobooks
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume 2
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
About the author
Born in Bengal on 28 April 1795, Charles Sturt served in the British Army before being posted to New South Wales. He became known for major expeditions into inland Australia, including the 1829–30 journey that followed the Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers and helped clarify the course of the continent’s great river system.
He later led further expeditions from South Australia, driven by the hope of understanding the interior. His 1844–46 journey into central Australia was marked by extreme heat, harsh desert conditions, and serious damage to his health, especially his eyesight.
Sturt also served as a public official in South Australia, and his books helped shape how British readers understood inland Australia. He died in Cheltenham, England, on 16 June 1869, but his name remains closely tied to the age of exploration in Australia.