George Goyder
George Woodroffe Goyder (born June 24, 1826 in Liverpool , † November 2, 1898 in Adelaide ) was an Australian geodesist and head of the surveying authority, which Darwin founded in 1869 .
biography
Goyder was born in Liverpool, England. His father was a doctor. Goyder later lived in Glasgow with his family . He worked in an engineering office and studied surveying. At the age of 22, in 1848, he moved to Sydney with his sister and brother-in-law . There he worked for an auction company for a while and in 1851 he moved to Adelaide, South Australia, and got a job as a technical draftsman in the public service. He quickly made a career, rose to assistant to the head of the land surveying office in 1856 and took over the management in 1861.
Darwin
Goyder was responsible for the location, planning and establishment of Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory . The decisive factor was the supply of drinking water and the good transport connections by sea and land to the rest of the continent. Darwin was after the failed attempt to settle by Boyle Finniss in Escape Cliffs, the second, now successful attempt to establish a permanent settlement in the Northern Territory. Goyder was commissioned by the government of South Australia (which then included the Northern Territory) to create an urban plan for the capital, which is still known as Palmerston. In 1869 Goyder traveled with a team of 128 men from Port Adelaide to the port of Darwin. He chose Fort Point near Darwin Harbor and established other settlements called Daly , Southport and Virginia . In 1872 Darwin was linked to England by an undersea telegraph line through Indonesia. In 1911, Palmerston was renamed Darwin. The name Palmerston remained for the satellite city that had formed around Darwin.
Appreciation
Mount Woodroffe , the highest mountain in South Australia, the Goyder Crater , the Goyder Highway , the Goyder (river) and the Goyder Lagoon were named after George Goyder . The name of the so-called Goyder line of precipitation, which climatically delimits the land between plantable farmland on the one hand and pastureland on the other, goes back to him.
Individual evidence
- ↑ George W. Goyder at southaustralianhistory.com.au (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goyder, George |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Goyder, George Woodroffe (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian geodesist and head of the land surveying agency that founded Darwin in 1869 |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1826 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liverpool |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 2, 1898 |
| Place of death | Adelaide |