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R. H. Edmunds
Robert Henry Edmunds ISO (12 April 1834 – 12 February 1917) was a surveyor, explorer and public servant in the early days of the colony of South Australia. He was involved in surveys and explorations in the Northern Territory with Finniss's party at Escape Cliffs and with the McKinlay exploration of the Alligator Rivers region. History Edmunds was born in Great Marlborough street, London, eldest son of Daniel Edmunds and his wife Mary, and was educated at Caversham, Oxfordshire. His parents and their family of four arrived in South Australia aboard ''Calphurnia'' in April 1849. He worked as a sailor for a few years, then on 15 April 1855 joined the South Australian Government as a surveyor, then on 1 January 1858, was appointed to the list of first-class officers. In 1863, he transferred to the Customs Department, and was appointed sub-collector of customs at Wallaroo, but before he could take up the post he accepted a position as senior surveyor with B. T. Finniss's party whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, and second smallest state by population. It has a total of 1.8 million people. Its population is the second most highly centralised in Australia, after Western Australia, with more than 77 percent of South Australians living in the capital Adelaide, or its environs. Other population centres in the state are relatively small; Mount Gambier, the second-largest centre, has a population of 33,233. South Australia shares borders with all of the other mainland states, as well as the Northern Territory; it is bordered to the west by Western Australia, to the north by the Northern Territory, to the north-east by Queensland, to the east by New South Wales, to the south-east by Victoria, and to the south by the Great Australian Bight.M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Territory Of Australia
The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Australia to the west ( 129th meridian east), South Australia to the south ( 26th parallel south), and Queensland to the east ( 138th meridian east). To the north, the territory looks out to the Timor Sea, the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria, including Western New Guinea and other islands of the Indonesian archipelago. The NT covers , making it the third-largest Australian federal division, and the 11th-largest country subdivision in the world. It is sparsely populated, with a population of only 249,000 – fewer than half as many people as in Tasmania. The largest population center is the capital city of Darwin. The archaeological history of the Northern Territory may have begun more than 60,000 years ago when humans first settled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caversham, Oxfordshire
Caversham is a suburb of Reading, England. Originally a village founded in the Middle Ages, it lies on the north bank of the River Thames, opposite the rest of Reading. Caversham Bridge, Reading Bridge, Christchurch Bridge, and Caversham Lock provide crossing points (the last two for pedestrians only), with Sonning Bridge also available a few miles east of Caversham. Caversham has at Caversham Court foundations of a medieval house, a herb garden and tree-lined park open to the public at no charge. Caversham Lakes and marking its south and south-east border the Thames Path National Trail. Caversham rises from the River Thames, lying on flood plain and the lowest reaches of the Chiltern Hills. Named areas include Emmer Green, Lower Caversham, Caversham Heights and Caversham Park Village. With the exception of the centre of Caversham and Emmer Green, which were traditional villages, much of the development occurred during the 20th century. At the 2011 census the proportion of ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
