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49 relations: Alfred William Howitt, Ashburton, Devon, Australia, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Ballarat, Burke and Wills expedition, Celestial navigation, Charles Whybrow Ligar, Clement Hodgkinson, Cooper Creek, Dartmouth, Devon, Deniliquin, Devon, Dictionary of Australian Biography, Edward River, Edwin Welch, England, Flagstaff Gardens, Flinders River, Georg von Neumayer, Gulf of Carpentaria, Hamilton, Victoria, Indigenous Australians, Inglewood, Victoria, Ipplepen, John King (explorer), John Stenhouse, London, Mangrove, Melbourne, Melbourne Observatory, Melbourne University Publishing, Menindee, New South Wales, Meteorology, Normanton, Queensland, Percival Serle, Photozincography, Robert O'Hara Burke, South Australia, South Melbourne, Victoria, St Arnaud, Victoria, St Bartholomew's Hospital, Surveying, Surveyor General of Victoria, The Argus (Melbourne), Totnes, United Kingdom, Victoria (Australia), Wannon River.
Alfred William Howitt
Alfred William Howitt CMG (17 April 1830 – 7 March 1908) was an Australian anthropologist, explorer and naturalist.
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Ashburton, Devon
Ashburton is a small town on the south-southeastern edge of Dartmoor in Devon, adjacent to the A38.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB or AuDB) is a national co-operative enterprise founded and maintained by the Australian National University (ANU) to produce authoritative biographical articles on eminent people in Australia's history.
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Ballarat
Ballarat is a city located on the Yarrowee River in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia.
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Burke and Wills expedition
The Burke and Wills expedition was an Australian exploration expedition in 1860–61 of 19 men, led by Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills, with the objective of crossing Australia from Melbourne in the south, to the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north, a distance of around 3,250 kilometres (approximately 2,000 miles).
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Celestial navigation
Celestial navigation, also known as astronavigation, is the ancient and modern practice of position fixing that enables a navigator to transition through a space without having to rely on estimated calculations, or dead reckoning, to know their position.
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Charles Whybrow Ligar
Charles Whybrow Ligar (1809 or 1811 – February 1881) was a British army officer, Surveyor General of New Zealand and Surveyor General of Victoria, (then a colony, now a state of Australia).
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Clement Hodgkinson
Clement Hodgkinson (1818 – 5 September 1893) was a notable English naturalist, explorer and surveyor of Australia.
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Cooper Creek
The Cooper Creek (formerly Cooper's Creek) is one of the most famous rivers in Australia because it was the site of the death of the explorers Burke and Wills in 1861.
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Dartmouth, Devon
Dartmouth is a town and civil parish in the English county of Devon.
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Deniliquin
Deniliquin, known locally as "Deni", is a town in the Riverina region of New South Wales close to the border with Victoria.
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Devon
Devon, also known as Devonshire, which was formerly its common and official name, is a county of England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south.
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Dictionary of Australian Biography
The Dictionary of Australian Biography, published in 1949, is a reference work by Percival Serle containing information on notable people associated with Australian history.
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Edward River
Edward River, or Kyalite River, an anabranch of the Murray River and part of the Murray-Darling basin, is located in the western Riverina region of south western New South Wales, Australia.
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Edwin Welch
Edwin James Welch (26 December 1838 – 24 September 1916) was an English naval cadet, surveyor, photographer, newspaper proprietor, writer and journalist.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Flagstaff Gardens
Flagstaff Gardens is the oldest park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, first established in 1862.
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Flinders River
The Flinders River is the longest river in Queensland, Australia at approximately.
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Georg von Neumayer
Georg Balthazar von Neumayer (21 June 1826 – 24 May 1909), was a German polar explorer and scientist who was a proponent of the idea of international cooperation for meteorology and scientific observation.
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Gulf of Carpentaria
The Gulf of Carpentaria is a large, shallow sea enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded on the north by the Arafura Sea (the body of water that lies between Australia and New Guinea).
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Hamilton, Victoria
Hamilton is a large town in south-western Victoria, Australia, at the intersection of the Glenelg Highway and the Henty Highway.
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Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands prior to British colonisation.
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Inglewood, Victoria
Inglewood is a township in Victoria, Australia, located on the Calder Highway in the Shire of Loddon.
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Ipplepen
Ipplepen is a village and civil parish located within the Teignbridge district of the county of Devon in south-west England.
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John King (explorer)
John King (15 December 1838 – 15 January 1872) was an Irish soldier who achieved fame as an Australian explorer.
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John Stenhouse
John Stenhouse FRS FRSE FIC FCS (21 October 1809 – 31 December 1880) was a Scottish chemist.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Mangrove
A mangrove is a shrub or small tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water.
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Melbourne
Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.
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Melbourne Observatory
Melbourne Observatory was founded in 1862 to serve as a scientific research institution for the rapidly growing city of Melbourne, the capital of the colony of Victoria.
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Melbourne University Publishing
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) is the book publishing arm of the University of Melbourne.
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Menindee, New South Wales
Menindee, frequently but erroneously spelled "Menindie", is a small town in the far west of New South Wales, Australia, in Central Darling Shire, on the banks of the Darling River, with a sign-posted population of 980 and a population of 551.
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Meteorology
Meteorology is a branch of the atmospheric sciences which includes atmospheric chemistry and atmospheric physics, with a major focus on weather forecasting.
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Normanton, Queensland
Normanton is a small cattle town and locality in the Shire of Carpentaria in Queensland, Australia.
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Percival Serle
Percival Serle (18 July 1871 – 16 December 1951) was an Australian biographer and bibliographer.
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Photozincography
Photozincography, sometimes referred to as heliozincography but essentially the same process, known commercially as zinco, is the photographic process developed by Sir Henry James FRS (1803–1877) in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Robert O'Hara Burke
Robert O'Hara Burke (6 May 1821c. 28 June 1861) was an Irish soldier and police officer who achieved fame as an Australian explorer.
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South Australia
South Australia (abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.
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South Melbourne, Victoria
South Melbourne is an inner suburb of Melbourne, Australia, 2 km south of Melbourne's Central Business District (CBD).
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St Arnaud, Victoria
St Arnaud is a town in the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia, 244 kilometres north west of the capital Melbourne.
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St Bartholomew's Hospital
St Bartholomew's Hospital, also known simply as Barts and later more formally as The Royal Hospital of St Bartholomew, is a hospital located at Farringdon in the City of London and founded in 1123.
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Surveying
Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, and science of determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them.
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Surveyor General of Victoria
The Surveyor General of Victoria is the person nominally responsible for government surveying in Victoria, Australia.
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The Argus (Melbourne)
The Argus was a morning daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia that was established in 1846 and closed in 1957.
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Totnes
Totnes is a market town and civil parish at the head of the estuary of the River Dart in Devon, England within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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Victoria (Australia)
Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.
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Wannon River
The Wannon River, a perennial river of the Glenelg Hopkins catchment, is located in the Western District of Victoria, Australia.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_John_Wills
