Person

Sturt, Charles (1795 - 1869)

Born
28 April 1795
India
Died
16 June 1869
England
Occupation
Explorer

Summary

Charles Sturt, a military officer, undertook an exploration of the Murrumbidgee and Murray Rivers in 1829. He later took up a position as Assistant Commissioner of Lands in South Australia and in 1844-1846 explored Central Australia.

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Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

  • Augustus Charles Gregory - Records, 1842 - 1903, MS 191-8 and Q420-42; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
  • Charles Sturt - Records, 1845 - 1846, A4099; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
  • Charles Sturt - Records, 1824 - 1845; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
  • Charles Sturt - Records, 1829 - 1869, FM 4/21; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

  • Charles Sturt - Records, 1844 - 1848, mfm M403; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection

  • Charles Sturt - Records, 1838, MS 9025; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details
  • Charles Sturt - Records, 1945 - 1949, M403; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Brock, D. G., To the desert with Sturt: a diary of the 1844 expedition (Adelaide: Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, 1975), 222 pp. Details
  • Cumpston, J. H. L., Charles Sturt: His Life and Journeys of Exploration (Melbourne: Georgian House, 1951), 195 pp. Details
  • Kennedy, D., Captain Charles Sturt (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1958). Details
  • Sturt, Charles, Narrative of an expedition into Central Australia, performed under the authority of Her Majesty's government, during the years 1844, 5, and 6: together with a notice of the province of South Australia in 1847, 2 vols (London: T. and W. Boone, 1849). Details
  • Sturt, Charles, Narrative of an expedition into Central Australia : performed under the authority of her Majesty's Government, during the years 1844, 5, and 6, together with a notice of the Province of South Australia, in 1847 (North Adelaide: Corkwood Press, 2001), 504 pp. Details
  • Sturt, Mrs Napier George, Life of Charles Sturt (London: Smith & Elder, 1899). Details
  • Swan, Keith, with Carnegie, Margaret, In step with Sturt (Armadale, Vic.: H. H. Stephenson, 1979), 115 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Gammage, Bill, 'Charles Sturt, 1795-1869' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Details
  • Gibbney, H.J., 'Sturt, Charles (1795-1869), explorer, soldier and public servant' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 2: 1788 - 1850 I-Z, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1967), pp. 495-498. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020458b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Dowling, Peter, 'What Charles Sturt saw in 1830 - syphilis beyond the colonial boundaries?', Health and History, 19 (1) (2017), 44-59. Details
  • Flakelar, Danielle Carney; and O'Gorman, Emily, 'Wayilwan women caring for Country: dynamic knowledges, decolonising historical methodologies, and colonial explorer journals', Journal of Australian studies, 47 (1) (2023), 160-80, https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2022.2153378. Details
  • Rainbow, W. A., 'Charles Sturt, Explorer and Naturalist', The Australian Museum Magazine, 4 (1930), 75-77. Details

Resources

See also

  • Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_s.html. Details
  • Palmer, Vance, National portraits (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1960), 230 pp. Details
  • Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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