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Elder's Exploration Expedition [B 10340] • Photograph

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Summary

Start of Elder's Exploring Expedition : April/May 1891. Sir Thomas Elder financed this ambitious expedition to discover the inland deserts in South Australia and Western Australia. The leader was David Lindsay and the14 man expedition which left Warrina west of Oodnadatta in 1891. The 6886 kilometre journey covered 200,000 square kilometres and collected 150 new species of insects and 19 new species of plants. Richard Helms was the naturalist and Victor Streich was the geologist. Lawrence Allen Wells was the surveyer. They made notes on the Aboriginal people they encountered on the way. The expedition travelled with 44 camels. The photograph identifies 4 of the men in the expedition.

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Physical description

Photograph; 16.0 cm x 10.4 cm

Dates / Publication details

1891

Collection

Part of General Collection

Subject

Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition (1891-1892)
Explorers -- Australia
Scientific expeditions -- Australia
Camels -- Australia

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Digitisation information

Date

08/12/2005

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,283 x 2,172 pixels (7.1 MP)

Size

21.42 MB

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