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	Gregory Blaxland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gregory Blaxland (17 June 1788 — 31 December 1852) was a pioneer farmer and explorer.
		In 1808 was associated with the Macarthur faction in the deposing of Governor Bligh.
		In January 1827 Blaxland was elected by a public meeting with two others to present a petition to Governor Darling asking that "Trial by jury" and "Taxation by Representation" should be extended to the colony.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gregory_Blaxland (461 words)

	Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Blaxland's farm at the South Creek [near the present town of St Marys], for the purpose of endeavouring to effect a passage over the Blue Mountains, between the Western River, and the River Grose.
		They crossed the Nepean, or Hawkesbury River, at the ford, on to Emu Island [this sand island disappeared some time later], at four o'clock p.m., and having proceeded, according to their calculation, two miles in a south-west direction, through forest land and good pasture, encamped at five o'clock at the foot of the first ridge.
		With the completion of the railway across the mountains, and upgrade of the road, both of which closely follow the route of Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth, the population west of the mountains quickly grew.
	gutenberg.net.au /pages/blaxland.html (483 words)

	Walkabout - Blaxland
		Blaxland's importance is well summed up in the Australian Dictionary of Biography which records that: 'By 1813 he had come to realise that his flocks of sheep and cattle were expanding beyond the resources of his coastal grant.
		Macquarie could not be persuaded to grant extra lands to large flock owners on the coast, and Blaxland thus drew the correct conclusion that the solution to the pastoralists' land problem lay in discovering a route to the interior.
		Though as early as 1816 Blaxland claimed to have been the leader of the expedition, contemporary records suggest that none of the three assumed this position but that their effort was a joint one.
	www.walkabout.com.au /theage/locations/NSWBlaxland.shtml (665 words)

	NHWGGA - Sydney Region Wine and Grape Historical Timeline
		Blaxland established a vineyard at Ermington on the Parramatta River in 1806 and by 1822 shipped 136 litres of wine to London where it won the Silver Medal of the Society for Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, now known as the Royal Society of Arts.
		Gregory Blaxland purchases 'Brush Farm' at Ermington on the Parramatta River and immediately plants cuttings that he obtained from the Cape of Good Hope on his trip to Australia as an experiment.
		Gregory Blaxland determines from his experiments that Black Constantia and Claret are the most suitable varieties.
	www.hawkesbury.net.au /nhwgg/overview/history.html (2642 words)

	Gregory Blaxland - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Blaxland, Gregory (1778-1853), British explorer and pioneer farmer of Australia who was in the first party of Europeans to cross the Blue...
		Perillo, Gregory, born in 1931, American artist, best known for his paintings of Native American subjects.
		Gregory XIII (1502-1585), pope from 1572 to 1585, who carried out the reform of the Julian calendar, producing the system currently in use...
	encarta.msn.com /Gregory_Blaxland.html (102 words)

	Journal of Gregory Blaxland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Blaxland's farm at the South Creek [Note 5], for the purpose of endeavouring to effect a passage over the Blue Mountains, between the Western River, and the River Grose.
		Blaxland and one of the men nearly lost the party to-day by going too far in the pursuit of a kangaroo.
		Blaxland, of Wollun, a grandson of the explorer
	gutenberg.net.au /ebooks02/0200411h.html (7259 words)

	Blaxland Gregory - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Blaxland Gregory - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Blaxland, Gregory (1778-1853), Australian explorer and pioneer farmer.
		Born in Kent, England, Blaxland was one of New South Wales's first “free”...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Blaxland_Gregory.html (117 words)

	Blaxland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Leaving Blaxland's farm at South Creek on 11 May, 1813, they decided not to follow the valleys like previous explorers.
		They then climbed a high hill called Mount Blaxland and from here they could see "forest land all around them sufficient to feed the stock of the colony for the next thirty years".
		By this time their food was running low and their clothes and shoes were worn out, so they started their return journey, reaching Blaxland's farm on 8 June, 1813.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /books_and_maps/blaxland.html (424 words)

	Historical Feature - Blaxland, Lawson & Wentworth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		With a party of four servants, four horses and five dogs, Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson made the first successful inland exploration of the Australian continent by white settlers, crossing the Blue Mountains in May, 1813.
		Gregory Blaxland (1778-1853) was a pastoralist and one of the first free settlers in NSW.
		The remarkable success of the expedition was due in part to the decision to traverse the mountains by the ridges rather than the valleys.
	www.australianstamp.com /Coin-web/feature/history/blaxlaw.htm (336 words)

	explorers
		Settlers Blaxland, Wentworth, and Lawson would not be deterred from seeking the land which would be the colony's lifeblood, even if it mean pitting themselves agains the Blue Mountains.
		Gregory Blaxland, a grazier joined settlers William Wentworth and William Lawson to find a way through the mountains.
		Blaxland wrote in his diary that they found a great stream and ate fish and kangaroo.
	www.geocities.com /bluegumtrees/explorers.html (1192 words)

	MR, 03.04.06 - Blaxland Bicentenary Celebrations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gregory Blaxland arrived with his family in New South Wales on 11 April 1806.
		It is anticipated that the Gregory Blaxland plaque will be the first of several to be placed in the Eastwood Mall that was once known as Blaxland’s Road.
		A commemorative brass plaque will be unveiled in Eastwood Plaza on Tuesday 11th April 2006 at 11.00am marking the 200th anniversary of the arrival of Gregory Blaxland in the fledgling colony of New South Wales.
	www.ryde.nsw.gov.au /news/media/mr030406b.htm (390 words)

	Blaxland, Wentworth & Lawson - easier version
		Gregory Blaxland was born in England in 1778 and was a farmer.
		On May 31, Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson crossed the valley and climbed a high hill.
		The settlement in Sydney could now spread across the mountains and the settlers could begin to use the land to the west of the Blue Mountains.
	www.davidreilly.com /australian_explorers/blaxland/blaxland_-easier.htm (721 words)

	Blaxland, Helen Frances - Australian Women Biographical entry
		Helen Blaxland spent much of her life working for charitable institutions, particularly the Australian Red Cross Society, for which she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1967.
		Helen Blaxland was the daughter of the late Brigadier General Sir R M McCheyne Anderson.
		She married Gregory Blaxland on 10 November 1927, and had one daughter, Antonia, who became a photographer.
	www.womenaustralia.info /biogs/IMP0010b.htm (354 words)

	Blaxland
		Blaxland is a thriving community with churches, shopping centre, community groups, a library, children's play centres, bush fire brigade, chamber of commerce and a small industrial area.
		Blaxland was originally named Wascoe after the family of John Outrim Wascoe who held a licence for the Pilgrim Inn.
		The town’s name was changed to Blaxland in 1914 after Gregory Blaxland - one of the famous explorers to first cross the Blue Mountains.
	www.bluemts.com.au /tourist/towns/blaxland.asp (427 words)

	Blue Mountains, Australia, Explorers - Blaxland, Lawson & Wentworth - History.
		Everyone knows that Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth were the first Europeans to succeed in crossing Australia's impenetrable Blue Mountains, and thus opened up the way for the colony to expand onto the vast fertile slopes and plains of the west.
		By the time Gregory Blaxland, Lt. William Lawson and William Charles Wentworth set out, a considerable amount of information had been gathered.
		Their turn-around point was Mt Blaxland, some 12km short of the Great Divide.
	www.infobluemountains.net.au /history/crossing_3ex.htm (624 words)

	Time Machine
		Augustus C. Gregory, a surveyor, was the most distinguished of three exploring brothers.
		Having completed two successful voyages with Matthew Flinders, George Bass, former ship's surgeon, was given command of an open whaleboat and a crew of six to explore the coast of New South Wales south of Sydney.
		Blaxland set out in May, 1813, to open up a passage between Sydney and the western plains.
	www.ozedweb.com /index/the_time_machine.htm (2002 words)

	Nardone Baker Blaxland Selction: Nardone Baker Wines, South Australia, Australia. Australian Soil - European Heritage ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Blaxland's Legacy Selection has been crafted by Nardone Baker Wines to honour Mr G. Blaxland, Australia's wine pioneer who was the first to win international praise for an Australian wine.
		Likewise, Nardone Baker chose London for the international launch of its Australian wines and now, thanks to Mr Blaxland's Legacy we have international medals to our name and ship our wine the world over.
		Serve with roast pork, duck l'orange and and soft cheeses.
	www.nardonebaker.com.au.cob-web.org:8888 /blaxland.htm (269 words)

	Blaxland High School
		Congratulations to Joshua Harrex on his outstanding artwork, one of many on display at our HSC "Body of Work" Exhibition in the Performating Arts Centre on Tuesday 29th August.
		After extensive research during a recently tendered Uniform Shop proposal the new uniform was on display in the Gregory Blaxland Room for parents to peruse.
		The new uniform will be compulsory for Year 7 & 11 in 2007 and will be phased in for Years 8, 9, 10 & 12 over the next 2 years.
	www.blaxlandhigh.com.au (230 words)

	Gregory Blaxland
		Click here to go to the easier version of Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson
		In 1813, they found a way to cross the Blue Mountains, opening up more farming land to the settlement at Sydney.
		Their successful expedition meant that a road could be built and surveyed across the Blue mountains and settlement could move out from Sydney.
	www.davidreilly.com /australian_explorers/blaxland/blaxland,_wentworth,_lawson.htm (351 words)

	ebooks e-books electronic books Exeter England Illustrated 1900s (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		THE JOURNAL OF GREGORY BLAXLAND, 1813 incorporating...a JOURNAL OF A TOUR OF DISCOVERY ACROSS THE BLUE MOUNTAINS, NEW SOUTH WALES, IN THE YEAR 1813
		This eBook contains the "JOURNAL OF A TOUR OF DISCOVERY ACROSS THE BLUE MOUNTAINS, NEW SOUTH WALES, IN THE YEAR 1813" written by George Blaxland that was published in 1913, to coincide with the centenary celebrations of the first crossing of the Blue Mountains in 1813 by Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth.
		This edition includes a number of photographs from 1913 which record the route of the explorers.
	www.ozebook.com /ozebook/blaxland.htm (470 words)

	Australian Explorers: Gregory Blaxland
		On the left of the main western highway from Sydney, just beyond Katoomba, is the Explorers' Tree, one of the trees said by some to have been marked by Gregory Blaxland during his famous exploration of the passage over the Blue Mountains.
		Undeterred by Governor King's conclusion that the mountains were impassable, and that further efforts to master them would be "as chimerical as useless", Blaxland determined to test the theory that the way to cross the mountains was not to follow a valley but to climb to the top of a ridge and trace it westwards.
		Accompanied by Lieutenant Lawson and William Charles Wentworth and four servants, he set out in May, 1813, from his farm at South Creek, and, cutting his way through heavily timbered country, succeeded in opening up a passage towards the western plains.
	www.ozedweb.com /history/oz_e_blaxland.htm (146 words)

	EXPLORION - Travel & Exploration Online - The Journal of Gregory Blaxland, 1813 - Page 1
		EXPLORION - Travel & Exploration Online - The Journal of Gregory Blaxland, 1813 - Page 1
		You can find here historical travelogues, full texts of classic books, journals of discovery and personal adventures by authors as diverse as Marco Polo, Cabeza de Vaca, Samuel de Champlain, Alexander von Humboldt, Richard F. Burton, David Livingstone, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Lafcadio Hearn, Theodore Roosevelt and many more.
		[Note 1: Blaxland did not exaggerate when he referred to the "important alterations" resulting from his expedition, and he
	explorion.net /g.blaxland-journal-gregory-blaxland-1813/index.html (859 words)

	Blaxland, Gregory - Bright Sparcs Biographical entry
		Blaxland crossed the Blue Mountains in 1813 with W Lawson and W C Wentworth, thus opening up the interior to pastoralists.
		Commemorated by the town of Blaxland in the Blue Mountains.
		Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000,
	www.asap.unimelb.edu.au /bsparcs/biogs/P003029b.htm (105 words)

	Australian Explorers
		Gregory Blaxland (1788-1855) This page provides links to other resources, including a link to Blaxland's journal (provided below)
		Journal of a tour of discovery across the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, in the year 1813 - by Gregory Blaxland
		A newspaper editor's review of a book about
	www.teachers.ash.org.au /jmresources/achievers/explorers.html (87 words)

	Blaxland (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-3.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Name Derivation: Named after Gregory Blaxland 1778-1853, an early Australian explorer of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales.
		Area and Location Description: Blaxland covers an area of approximately 54 sq km from Villawood and the George's River in the west to Strathfield South and Wiley Park in the east, Chester Hill and Chullora in the north to Canterbury and Milperra Roads in the south.
		For supporting information, see Party Codes, Demographic Ratings and Seat Status.
	www.aec.gov.au.cob-web.org:8888 /_content/Who/profiles/b/blaxland.htm (134 words)

	BLAXLAND (2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		View electorate boundary map (PDF Format, 270 kb)
		Named after Gregory Blaxland (1778-1853), an early Australian explorer of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales.
		It covers an area of approximately 54 sq km from Villawood and the George's River in the west to Strathfield South and Wiley Park in the east, Chester Hill and Chullora in the north to Canterbury and Milperra Roads in the south.
	www.aec.gov.au /_content/When/elections/2001/profiles/b/blaxland.htm (130 words)

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