Australian exploring expedition in the scrub |
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| Title : | Australian exploring expedition in the scrub |
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| Creator : | Young, Jesse, d1909 | ||
| Source : | Illustrated London News, 1 July 1876, p. 8-9 | ||
| Place Of Creation : | London | ||
| Publisher : | William Little | ||
| Date of creation : | 1876 | ||
| Format : | Magazine | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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| Description : |
Jesse Young's drawing shows Ernest Giles's expedition of 1875 which covered the area from Fowler Bay in South Australia to Perth in Western Australia. The image shows Giles and party battling their way through dense scrub. It was on this expedition that Boundary Dam and Queen Victoria Springs were found. Giles was well supplied with camels from Sir Thomas Elder's Beltana camel stud. With the long dry stretches that the expedition endured, it would have not been possible without the camels. Young was a member of the expedition. In 1866 Sir Thomas Elder imported a large number of camels into South Australia, to establish a breeding stud at Beltana. The camels were from Pakistan and included riding camels and heavier breeds for carrying loads. Together with the camels he brought men to handle them - commonly called 'Afghans' they were in fact from Rajasthan and Baluchistan (now West Pakistan). Ernest Giles used horses and camels on his third expedition - the horses died from lack of water; the camels survived and Giles was convinced of their worth and subsequently relied solely on camels. |
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| Related names : | Giles, Ernest, 1835-1897 Young, Jesse, d1909 |
| Period : | 1852-1883 |
| Region : | Flinders Ranges and Far North - Outback |
| Further reading : | McKnight, Tom L. The camel in Australia [Melbourne]: Melbourne University Press, [1969] Giles, Ernest, Australia twice traversed: the romance of exploration, being a narrative compiled from the journals of five exploring expeditions into and through central South Australia and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876 Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1964 Ericksen, Ray, Ernest Giles, explorer and traveller, 1835-1897 Melbourne: Heinemann Australia, 1978 |
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