Harrison Walker

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Harrison Howell Dodge Walker (born August 4, 1910 in Georgia , USA , † January 26, 2003 in Woollahra near Sydney , New South Wales , Australia ) was an American journalist and photographer .

Early years

Harrison Walker came from an old Georgia family on his father's side and from New York on his mother's side . He went to St Alban's School in Washington, DC and Berkshire School in Sheffield , Massachusetts , to then enroll at Princeton University . He completed his language studies in 1933 and then became a correspondent for National Geographic .

Journalist and photographer

As a journalist and photographer, Walker has traveled the world writing and making documentary films including articles on Australia such as "The making of an Anzac " and "Life in dauntless Darwin ". This made him a National Geographic correspondent for Australia.

In 1942 he married Sheila Gordon Anderson, the daughter of a prominent businessman and bridge degener from Sydney . In April 1943, he joined the US Army Air Forces as a first lieutenant and served as an intelligence officer in Australia, New Guinea and the Philippines . After the end of the Second World War he returned to Australia and in 1948 became a journalist and photographer on the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land . During this eight-month expedition to the extreme and remote Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory , Australia, he was temporarily lost.

Walker worked extensively as a correspondent after this expedition and came back to Australia on various occasions, for example with Charles Mountford to Melville Island , until he finally settled with his wife in Woollahra near Sydney and also died there.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b epress.anu.edu.au (PDF; 185 kB): Mark Collins Jenkins: A Robinson Crusoe in Arnhem Land, Howell Walker, National Geographic and the Arnhem Land Expedition of 1948 . P. 72 ff. In: Martin Thomas, Margo Neale: Exploring the Legacy of the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition , p. 72 ff., Australian National University, Griffin Press 2011, eISBN 9781921666452, ISBN 9781921666445 Online on Googlebooks
personal data
SURNAME Walker, Harrison
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walker, Harrison Howell Dodge (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Georgia , USA
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 2003
Place of death Woollahra , Sydney , New South Wales , Australia