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| | Charles Sturt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Sturt left Wellington, N.S.W., in December, 1828, and, proceeding past the marshes which Oxley had considered to be the termination of the Macquarie, followed the course of the Bogan River, dry except for occasional pools, until in February, 1829, he reached a river which he named the Darling. |
 | | On a later expedition, Sturt followed the Murrumbidgee River down to its junction with "a broad and noble river" which he named the Murray. |
 | | Actually it was the same river that the explorers Hume and Hovell had crossed in 1824, and called the Hume. |
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