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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 69. Chapters: Ernest Giles, George Grey, John Forrest, Matthew Flinders, John Septimus Roe, Pieter Nuyts, William Dampier, Francois Peron, David Carnegie, George Fletcher Moore, Charles Edward Broadhurst, Charles Fraser, Maitland Brown, Augustus Charles Gregory, Jacques Felix Emmanuel Hamelin, E. T. Hooley, Edward John Eyre, Phillip Parker King, John Drummond, John Molloy, Dirk Hartog, Alexander Forrest, Louis de Freycinet, Willem de Vlamingh, Peter Warburton, Robert Edwin Bush, John Gilbert, John Rivett-Carnac, Tommy Windich, Charles Dempster, Thomas Brown, Hector Neil McLarty, Kenneth Brown, Thomas Vasse, James Drummond, William Butcher, Johnston Drummond, Alfred Canning, Frederick de Houtman, John Bussell, Mokare, Frederick Clause, Peter Belches, Francis Thomas Gregory, Robert Dale, John Livingston, Anthony O'Grady Lefroy, James Harding, Frederick Panter, Samuel Hamersley, William Shakespeare Hall, Charles Cooke Hunt, William Goldwyer, Alfred Bussell, Francois Thijssen, John Clements Wickham, Michael Durack, John Lort Stokes, Jess Young, Henry Bull, Frederick Slade Drake-Brockman, Edward Robinson, Frank Hann, Frederick Ludlow, David Francisco, Frank Wittenoom, Alfred Gibson, Du Bois Agett, Tom Cue, Frederick Bedwell, Lenaert Jacobszoon. Excerpt: Sir George Grey, KCB (14 April 1812 - 19 September 1898) was a soldier, explorer, Governor of South Australia, twice Governor of New Zealand, Governor of Cape Colony (South Africa), the 11th Premier of New Zealand and a writer. Grey was born in Lisbon, Portugal, the only son of Lieutenant-Colonel Grey, of the 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot, who was killed at the Battle of Badajoz in Spain just a few days before. His mother, on the balcony of her hotel in Lisbon, overheard two officers speak of his death and this brought on his premature birth. His mother, Elizabeth Anne, ...
