Misconceptions of the fertility of the land |
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| Title : | Misconceptions of the fertility of the land |
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| Creator : | Freeling, A. H. (Arthur Henry), 1820-1885 | ||
| Source : | Parliamentary paper (South Australia. Parliament); no. 193 of 1857, p. 4 | ||
| Place Of Creation : | Adelaide | ||
| Publisher : | Government Printer | ||
| Date of creation : | 1857 | ||
| Format : | Magazine | ||
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| Description : |
In continuing his report on his explorations in the north of South Australia and his re-examination of the country investigated by his Assistant Surveyor General GW Goyder earlier in the year, Surveyor General AH Freeling elaborated on the misconceptions that existed about the nature of the northern lands of South Australia. Irregular rains and poor stony soil were the more usual condition of the land, trees were only found in the creeks which ran irregularly. Goyder had been misled by the effects of heavy rains several months prior to his visit to the region. Freeling had been unable to use a boat on the lake as suggested by Goyder, as the lake itself now held only a bare inch of water over deep mud. Freeling also referred to Chambers's copper mine near Oratunga and the ease of transporting the copper to Port Augusta. The following year, 1858, explorers BH Babbage, Augustus Gregory, Peter Egerton Warburton, and John McDouall Stuart would discover the gaps between South Australia's band of salt lakes, which for many years had been considered to be one continuous lake. They would also discover the numerous mound springs of the region, which would enable the pastoralists to stock the country. |
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| Related names : | Freeling, A. H. (Arthur Henry), 1820-1885 Goyder, G. W. (George Woodroffe), 1826-1898 Chambers, James, 1811-1862 |
| Coverage year : | 1857 |
| Region : | Flinders Ranges and Far North - Outback |
| Further reading : | Threadgill, Bessie South Australian land exploration, 1856 to 1880 Adelaide: Board of Governors of the Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery of South Australia, 1922 Klaassen, Nic The northern Flinders Ranges : mountains, minerals and mines 1850-1920 [Eden Hills, S. Aust.] : N. Klaassen, 1991 Harris, Colin 'Oases in the desert', Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (South Australian Branch), vol. 81 (1980-81) pp. 26-39 The Measure of the land Adelaide: Department of Lands, 1986 Black, E. C. 'Lake Torrens hoodoo', Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (South Australian Branch), vol. 64, 1963, pp. 43-50 |
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