Hamilton Hume
Australian explorer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hamilton Hume (19 June 1797 – 19 April 1873) was the first Australian born explorer.
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Born | (1797-06-19)19 June 1797 |
Died | 19 April 1873(1873-04-19) (aged 75) |
Occupation(s) | Explorer, Farmer, Magistrate |
Hume was born near Parramatta, a town close to (and now a part of) Sydney. His father was Andrew Hamilton Hume, who came to Australia in 1790 in charge of convicts (prisoners) and later became a farmer.
At 17 he began exploring the Sydney area, and went as far as Berrima. On these journeys Hume learned how to live safely in the bush (the area far from the cities). In March 1817 he went on a journey with James Meehan, the deputy surveyor-general, and came to Lake Bathurst and the Goulburn Plains. Later he went with John Oxley and Meehan to Jervis Bay, and in 1822 was with a group which sailed in a boat down the east coast of New South Wales looking for rivers.