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Hovell, William Hilton, 1786-1875
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Hovell together with Hume, were involved in a major expedition of discovery to Port Phillip, travelling overland from Sydney in 1824-25. The Hume and Hovell expedition was one of the most important journeys of explorations undertaken in eastern Australia. In 1824 the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Thomas Brisbane, commissioned Hume and Hovell to lead an expedition to find new grazing land in the south of the colony and also to find where New South Wales's western-flowing rivers went to.The par...
