Peter Warburton
Peter Egerton Warburton CMG (born August 16, 1813 in Norley , Cheshire , England, † November 5, 1889 in Norley Bank , Beaumont near Adelaide in South Australia ) was one of the great European explorers who explored the geographic center of Australia. Peter Warburton was the first European to cross the Great Sand Desert of Australia.
Life
Warburton was raised in the French language and joined the British Navy in 1826 at the age of twelve. There he served on HMS Windsor Castle and then from 1831 to 1853 in the British Indian Army , where he held the rank of major. Since 1838 he was married to Alicia Mant. With her he had a son Richard. This accompanied him in the early 1870s on his important voyage of discovery through Australia.
From 1829 on he attended the East Indian Military School in Addiscombe before going to India in 1834. He left the East India Company for Australia in 1853 with the rank of major . Once there he went to Adelaide; in the same year he visited his brother George in Albany in Western Australia .
Expeditions
In 1857 Warburton came to the Gawler Ranges and Lake Gairdner . In 1858 he explored Lake Eyre and Lake Torrens and named the Davenport Ranges after Sir Samuel Davenport. In 1860 he discovered Streaky Bay , four years later he explored the northwest of Mount Margaret. In 1866 he followed Cooper Creek to Lake Eyre and found the Warburton River .
On September 21, 1872 he left Adelaide to find a way to Perth . The expedition reached Alice Springs in the spring of 1873 and Warburton continued in April. Due to the great exertion and the shortage of water, he became blind in one eye on this adventure and the expedition almost failed in the Great Sand Desert. Still, she reached De Gray station in an exhausted state. From there he moved to Roebourne on January 26, 1874 , in order to then embark with his expedition members who were still alive for Adelaide.
In 1874 he went to Great Britain due to his poor health, but returned to Australia after a short time.
Honors
The British awarded Warburton the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG) for his expedition successes. He was also honored by the Royal Geographical Society . After Warburton two mountain ranges, a river, two places that are Warburton art project of aborigines and a beetle named. In 1976 he was depicted on an Australian postage stamp as one of the six greatest explorers of Australia.
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| SURNAME | Warburton, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Warburton, Peter Egerton (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British explorer, expedition leader in Australia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Norley , Cheshire , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 5, 1889 |
| Place of death | Norley Bank , Adelaide , South Australia |