| Notable
Expedition's |
| The
History of Australian Exploration |
http://gutenberg.net.au/ausexplore/ausexpl3-app15.html |
GOYDER
G.W.
G W Goyder's Expedition of 1869 |
Goyder's Northern
Territory Expedition:
In late 1868, Goyder set out from Port Adelaide
with 150 men, among them a botanist and a doctor.
Goyder reached Darwin Harbour early in 1869, and
within a few months had fixed the site of the
Territory's capital at Palmerston (afterwards
Darwin) He also surveyed about 700,000 acres for
farming land.
1865--G. W. Goyder;
removed settlement of Escape Cliffs to Port Darwin.
Courtesy of: www.archives.sa.gov.au
Courtesy of: www.archives.sa.gov.au/exhibits/saonmap/planner/palmerston.html
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| The
dates and places of signings are listed below in
chronological order. |
| Early
Explorer's, Pastoralist's, Surveyor's and Pioneers |
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BARCLAY, HENRY
VERE
&
MacPHERSON, RONALD HORACE
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Explorer:
1911-12 Barclay Expedition Northern Territory
Survey & Exploration Party.
Courtesy
of: http://www.anu.edu.au/linguistics/nash/kt/1911-barclay.html
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BASEDOW,
HERBERT
(1881-1933) |
Anthropologist:
Courtesy of: http://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/0-dict-biogBa.html
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BENNETT
J WO
(????-1869) |
Draftsman:
Beenett Street - Darwin is named after J WO Bennett,
a Draftsman who was killed by natives at Fred's
Pass. His body was interred on the top of Fort
Hill, and a monument erected there. Speared between
hours 12 and 1 pm on Monday, 24th May, 1869. Died
10am Friday, 28th May. He was taken by wagon to
Elizabeth River landing and then by boat to Fort
Hill where he was buried at 2.30 pm on Saturday
29th May. The name was applied by Surveyor General
Goyder in 1869.
Courtesy
of: http://www.nt.gov.au/lands/lis/placenames/origins/darwincity.shtml
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BROWN,
HENRY YORKE LYELL
(1844-1928), |
Geologist:
Among his most notable achievements was the fixing
of the limits of the artesian basin in the centre
of Australia, and the discovering of sites for
bores.
Courtesy
of: http://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/0-dict-biogBr-By.html
(Scroll down on the page)
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BUCHANAN,
NATHANIEL
(1826-1901), |
Pioneer
Pastoralist and Explorer:
Throughout the seventies and eighties Buchanan
did a large amount of pioneering, working principally
in northern, Queensland and the Northern Territory.
Courtesy of:
http://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/0-dict-biogBr-By.html
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BURKE,
ROBERT O'HARA
(1821-1861), |
Explorer:
Gulf of Carpentaria
Courtesy of: http://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/0-dict-biogBr-By.html
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CADELL,
FRANCIS
(1822-1879), |
Navigator:
In February 1867 the South Australian government
sent Cadell to the Northern Territory "to fix
upon a proper site for the survey of 300,000 acres".
Courtesy
of: http://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/0-dict-biogCa-Ch.html
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CRESWELL,
SIR WILLIAM ROOKE
(1852-1933), |
Vice-admiral:
1878, and he then
went to Australia and took up land in Queensland
and the Northern Territory.
Courtesy
of: http://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/0-dict-biogCl-Cu.html
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EWART,
ALFRED JAMES
(1872-1937), |
Botanist:
in 1917 he published in collaboration with Miss
Olive B. Davies. The Flora of the Northern Territory.
Courtesy
of: http://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/0-dict-biogE.html
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FINNISS,
BOYLE TRAVERS
(1807-1893) |
Pioneer and
first premier of South Australia:
1864 the South Australian government, desiring
to open up the Northern Territory, organized a
survey party under Finniss, giving him instructions
to examine the Adelaide River and the coastline
to the west and east of it.
Courtesy
of: http://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/0-dict-biogF.html
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FORREST,
ALEXANDER
(1849-1901), |
Explorer:
IIn 1879 he led a party of eight men from De Grey
River then skirted to the Fitzroy River From there
they made their way to Palmerston, then the capital
of the Northern Territory, and they arrived on
7 October.
Courtesy
of: http://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/0-dict-biogF.html
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FORREST,
SIR JOHN,
first Baron Forrest of Bunbury
(1847-1918), |
Western Australia
Explorer and Statesman:
He had
been made C.M.G. in 1882, K.C.M.G. in 1891, a
privy councillor in 1897, G.C.M.G. in 1901, and
on 2 February 1918 he was raised to the peerage
as Baron Forrest of Bunbury, the first native-born
Australian to attain that honour.
Courtesy
of: http://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/0-dict-biogF.html
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FINNISS, BOYLE
TRAVERS
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Explorer:
Boyle Travers Finniss was appointed first Government
Resident and ordered to explore and survey a site
for the new settlement in the Northern Territory.
The site he selected was at Escape Cliffs near the
mouth of the Adelaide River, overriding the objections
of some of his staff. ... read on
Courtesy of: http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=502
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| LITCHFIELD,
FREDERICK HENRY |
Explorer and
Special Constable
Frederick Henry Litchfield, explorer and Special
Constable, old Palmerston NT with Finniss' survey
party 1864/5. Found first gold at Tumbling Waters
in 1868. Courtesy
of: http://www.nt.gov.au/lands/lis/placenames/origins/darwincity.shtml
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| MacKINLAY,
JOHN |
Explorer:
1865 John McKinlay arrived from Adelaide to explore
the region after Finniss ... read on Courtesy
of: http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=502
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| McMiNN,
GILBERT ROTHERDALE |
Surveyor:
1st class Surveyor in charge of the No. 4 Survey
Party in the Goyder expedition to establish Palmerston
(now Darwin) in 1869 and later in charge of surveying
the Central Sections of the Overland Telegraph
Line.
Courtesy
of: http://www.nt.gov.au/lands/lis/placenames/origins/darwincity.shtml
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