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    Hamilton Hume (19 June 1797 – 19 April 1873) was an early explorer of the present-day Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria. In 1824, along...
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    the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Thomas Brisbane, commissioned Hamilton Hume and former Royal Navy Captain William Hovell to lead an expedition to...
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    The Hume Highway, including the sections now known as the Hume Freeway and the Hume Motorway, is one of Australia's major inter-city national highways...
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    contested at the first federal election. The division was named after Hamilton Hume, one of the first Europeans to travel through the area. The division...
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    Hume Dam, formerly the Hume Weir, is a major dam across the Murray River downstream of its junction with the Mitta River in the Riverina region of New...
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    Hume is a suburb of Canberra, and is adjacent to the District of Jerrabomberra in New South Wales.The suburb is named after the explorer Hamilton Hume...
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    1786 – 9 November 1875) was an English explorer of Australia. With Hamilton Hume, he made an 1824 overland expedition from Sydney to Port Phillip (near...
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    David Hume (/hjuːm/; born David Home; 7 May 1711 – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist who was best known for...
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  • Graham Hume, South African cricketer Hamilton Hume (1797–1873), Australian explorer Iain Hume (born 1983), Scottish-Canadian soccer player Ian Hume (born...
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    their failed attempt to cross the interior of Australia, as well as Hamilton Hume and Charles Sturt. For many years, plans of westward expansion from...
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    edu.au. Retrieved 14 July 2011. Hume, Stuart H. (17 August 1960). "Hume, Hamilton (1797–1873)". Biography – Hamilton Hume – Australian Dictionary of Biography...
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    maternal grandmother, Jessie Huon Middleton, née Hume, was the niece of the colonial explorer, Hamilton Hume. Rawdon Middleton spent the main part of his...
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    (100 acres) to Andrew Hamilton Hume; and 24 hectares (60 acres) to George Best. Riley, Uther and Hume were all free settlers and Hume was connected by marriage...
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    Yass, New South Wales (category Hume Highway)
    area was first seen by Europeans in 1821, during an expedition led by Hamilton Hume. By 1830, settlement had begun where the nascent Sydney to Melbourne...
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  • Paul Hamilton Hume White (26 February 1910 – 21 December 1992) was an Australian missionary, evangelist, radio program host and author. White was born...
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    Among Appin's free settlers was one Andrew Hamilton Hume, father of the explorer Hamilton Hume. Hamilton Hume and his brother John were tireless investigators...
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    Woiwurrung language of the Wurundjeri people. The mountain was sighted by Hamilton Hume and William Hovell on their 1824 expedition to Port Phillip from New...
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    independence. The sources that Hamilton used ranged from Frenchmen such as Jacques Necker and Montesquieu to British writers such as Hume, Hobbes, and Malachy Postlethwayt...
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    1830 to 1837 by Cornelius and Rebecca O'Brien. It is also known as Hamilton Hume's House, Humedale Stud, and New Nordrach Institute for Consumption. The...
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  • New South Wales established in 1859 in the Albury area, named after Hamilton Hume. It did not include the town of Albury after the creation of the electoral...
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  • Australia. The track allows walkers to rediscover the route of explorers Hamilton Hume and William Hovell on their expedition to Port Phillip in 1824. The...
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    and eight convicts; on 27 November Sturt was joined by Hamilton Hume as his first assistant. Hume's experience proved to be very useful. A week was spent...
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    Wandong (category Hume Highway)
    Aboriginal word meaning "Spirit". The first Europeans to reach Wandong were Hamilton Hume and Captain William Hilton Hovell who travelled through the centre of...
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  • the south coast to the Shoalhaven loaded with tools and provisions. Hamilton Hume, who later became a well-known explorer, was also on board. On 21 June...
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    Victoria including Port Phillip Bay and its surrounds. Hume’s Pass was discovered and named by Hamilton Hume and Captain William Hilton Hovell on the 13th December...
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    grant.[citation needed] In January and February 1822 Berry went with Hamilton Hume and Lieutenant Robert Johnson on a journey of exploration down the coast...
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    the town of Culcairn. Hume County was named in honour of the explorer Hamilton Hume (1797-1873). A full list of parishes found within this county; their...
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    River and Hudson Bay Alexander von Humboldt German 19th Latin America, Siberia Hamilton Hume Australian 19th Australian interior James S. Hutchinson American 20th...
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    Allan Octavian Hume, CB ICS (4 June 1829 – 31 July 1912) was a British political reformer, ornithologist, civil servant and botanist who worked in British...
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    aboriginal word meaning ‘sky’ or ‘cloud’. In 1824, William Hovell and Hamilton Hume were the first Europeans to set foot in what is now the City of Whittlesea...
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