WHY THAT MAP?

Why do you have THAT map of H and H's supposed route?  There is nil to say who did that map.  To my knowledge it is one made up recently.  It has totally and utterly, NO veracity.

You have a Phd?  Howcome you have not used the map of the expedition from the offical records, that is online?  Why use recent and made up maps.  Come on Adam - this is Ozs history you are doing cactus to.

The H and H map is online at the NLA 'maps'.  It has Mt Columbus in it so when you find it you will know you have the right map.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-f3

try the above 1.

Note, the bottom left hand corner of this real map, is around jugiong.  Looking towards the top of the map is looking towards melb from Jugiong.  The bottom right hand side of the map is over around junee/cootamundra.

You will notice the hume river mid map.  Humula?  Once called Amercian Yards if its anywhere near where some try and claim these days H and H went.  Sturt in his 1838 paper about the origin of the Hume River says Hume River is what we know today as Yanco Ck (he gives the co-ordinates) but he may have been referring to the Junction of Yanco Creek and the Murrumbidgee in which case the Hume River is likely the Murrumbeeja.

Dont take any notice of the 'toomut' marked on the map either as it isnt referring to the current day town called 'tumut' as the name tumut came from a 1850s court house that got transferred there from the Murray River (or Hume River!).