Paul Edmund de Strzelecki

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Paul Edmund de Strzelecki

Sir Paul Edmund de Strzelecki , also Paul Edmund Graf von Strzelecki , Polish Paweł Edmund Strzelecki , (born July 20, 1797 in Głuszyna near Posen , † October 6, 1873 in London ) was a Polish explorer and explorer .

Life

Paul Edmund Strzelecki, Franciszek Strzelecki's third child, left school without a qualification, served as a one-year-old in the Prussian Army and then made extensive trips to North and South America and India . He visited Java , parts of China , East India, and Egypt . In 1840 he discovered the area south of the Snowy Mountains in Australia , which he called Gippsland . He named the highest mountain in Australia, Mount Kosciuszko , after the military engineer Tadeusz Kościuszko . A statue was erected in his honor in Jindabyne, Australia in the Snowy Mountains. Strzelecki explored the Blue Mountains of New South Wales and in 1841 and 1842 Tasmania , which was then called Van Diemen's Land . On June 2, 1853, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society .

In 1869 he was raised to the British nobility as Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) .

In 1873 he died of liver cancer in London and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.

Honors

In 1972 the Strzelecki National Park on the Tasmanian island of Flinders Island was named after him. The Strzelecki Mountains , the Strzelecki Desert , the Strzelecki Track and the Strzelecki Creek in Australia are also named after him .

Works

  • Physical description of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land , London 1845.

Web links

literature

  • Lech Paszkowski: Sir Edmund De Strzelecki. Reflections on his life . Melbourne: Arcadia, 1997. ISBN 1-875606-39-4 (English)
  • HME Heney: In a dark glass. The story of Paul Edmond Strzelecki . Sydney [u. a.]: Angus & Robertson, 1961. (English)

Footnotes

  1. James Jupp, The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, its People and their Origins , Cambridge University Press 2001, p. 621
  2. ^ The London Gazette : No. 23512 (Supplement), p. 3750 , July 1, 1869.