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  Thomas Mitchell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1831 he explored the river systems to the north-west of Sydney.
Mitchell believed that all these rivers flowed eventually into the Darling River, which Charles Sturt had discovered in 1829.
He followed the Lachlan River to its juncture with the Murrumbidgee River, then followed the Murrumbidgee to its confluence with the Murray River.
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His map was edited before publication and the boundaries removed on the basis that Australian Aboriginal people were wanderers with no fixed attachments to land.
He was one of the first to successfully challenge the orthodoxy of the 1920s, that Aboriginal occupation of Australia had been relatively brief.
His excavation of a 5000-year old Aboriginal rock shelter at Devon Downs on the Murray River in 1929 was a pivotal event.
www.samuseum.sa.gov.au /tindale/HDMS/tindaletribes/ualarai.htm   (2216 words)

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