William Tietkens
William Harry Tietkens (born August 30, 1844 in Islington , London , England , † April 19, 1933 in Lithgow , New South Wales , Australia ) was a British explorer and prospector in Australia.
Life
He was the son of William Henry Tietkens, a chemist, and his wife Emily, nee Dovers. For training he was at Christ Hospital until June 1859. He left England and arrived in Adelaide in September 1859 .
William Tietkens worked at times for years on the railroad and as a farm helper. He also spent months looking for gold in Gippsland and silver near the Barrier Ranges .
On June 14, 1882, he married Mary Ann Lon, with whom he had a daughter.
Explorer
In 1865, William Tietkens spent two months with the Australian explorer Ernest Giles on the upper Darling River .
Another expedition took him to unknown land beyond Darling Downs to Lake Cobham and Lake Yantara . In the course of this exploration he came to the realization that expeditions and European settlements were acts of violent conquest by the British.
In 1873 he was Ernest Giles' deputy during the expedition that was to lead from South Australia to the west coast of the Australian continent. It wasn't until 1875 that he and Giles' second expedition got there.
In 1887 he went to England. On behalf of Louis Leisler of Glasgow, whom he had met there, he made an unsuccessful attempt to find agricultural land near Maralinga in South Australia from 1878 to 1880 . He named the Leisler Hills after him .
In 1886 he was unemployed and then gave lectures at a school that trained explorers. In March 1889 he set up a new expedition in Alice Springs and arrived in Charlotte Waters in July . On this expedition discovered Lake MacDonald , Mount Rennie , the Kintore Range and Cleland Hills . He was the first person to photograph Uluṟu (Ayers Rock) and Kata Tjuṯa (the Olgas). Tiekens also collected plants on this expedition, including seven new species.
From 1891 until his retirement in 1909 he was employed by the New South Wales Department of Lands . He then lived in Eastwood and died in Lithgow in 1933.
meaning
William Tietkens has played a leading role in three major expeditions to Australia. His achievement as a discoverer was primarily that he initiated further exploration between the expedition routes. He has published numerous geographical and scientific articles. Tietkens wrote his autobiography Experiences in the life of an Australian explorer in the Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society from 1919.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c adb.anu.edu.au : Hartwig Mervyn: Tietkens, William Harry (1844–1933) , in English, accessed April 7, 2013
- ↑ trove.nla.gov.au : Tietkens, William Henry, 1844-1933 , in English, accessed on April 8, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tietkens, William |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tietkens, William Harry (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British explorer and prospector in Australia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Islington , London , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 19, 1933 |
| Place of death | Lithgow , New South Wales , Australia |