Snowy Mountains

Snowy Mountains

Explorers

The first explorers to cross the Snowy Mountains were Evans &Currie. The expedition set out on October 3 1824, from Lake George to Mt Kosciusko. Oxley had taken to the Lachlan & Maquarie rivers. they were sensibly equipped due to Hume's bush experience. One of the convicts, Claude Bossawa, was wheeling a pram. This was not in case of family events, it was a devise to measure by a calibrated wheel.

Paul Edmund de Strzeleki 1797-1873

Paul Strzeleki was born near Poznan, Poland which he left in 1925 to study geology in England. After exploring in America and the Pacific, he arrived in Sydney in 1839. In 1840 he explored the Snowy Mountains area, climbing and naming Mount Kosciuszko ( after Polish patriot Thaddeus Kosciusko) and then travelled from Gippsland to Western Point Bay. The expedition moved south-west through settled countryside following the approximate line of the present Hume Highway through Mittagong, Goulburn and Yass.

Research by Jamie-Lee H. & Elizabeth W. 5/6M.

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