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Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt (German pronunciation: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç 'vɪlhɛlm 'lu:tvɪç 'laɪçhaːʁt]; 23 October 1813 – c. 1848), known as Ludwig Leichhardt, [1] was a German explorer and naturalist, most famous for his exploration of northern and central Australia.
Leichhardt blamed failure of that expedition on the "effeminacy" of his men. [4] Mann responded to Leichhardt's allegations in a newspaper article [5] 20 years later and a book [b] after 40 years. [7] In 1848 he joined the NSW Survey Department, and surveyed a large portion of the State.
The first European to visit the area was government surveyor John Forrest who passed through in 1869 while on an expedition in search of the lost explorer Ludwig Leichhardt. On 25 June he named a nearby hill Mount Margaret after Margaret Elvire Hamersley whom he later married in 1876. [2] The local indigenous name for the hill is Kalgara. [3]
Explorer Ludwig Leichhardt named a mountain in Queensland after him in 1844. ... In 1862, Nicholson returned to England and in 1865 married Sarah Elizabeth Keightley ...
Ludwig Leichhardt explored the Callide and Dawson Valleys in 1844. ... Soon after his arrival, he married his fiancee, Elizabeth Brydges, who had accompanied him from ...
His ability to converse with Aboriginal people made Tom extremely well known in Brisbane, where he was sought out by explorers (including Ludwig Leichhardt), local business men, government bureaucrats and Queensland governors alike, for his knowledge of the area and its indigenous inhabitants and to assist in locating commercially exploitable ...
Gainer and Ferguson got married in 2018. In January 2019, Ferguson revealed that she and Gainer had a private, intimate wedding towards the end of 2018. Her 16-year-old son served as the ring bearer.
In 1869 Louisa married explorer and naturalist James Calvert (1825–84) who had accompanied Ludwig Leichhardt on his 1844-45 expedition. Always interested in horticulture, he won a medal at the 1862 International Exhibition in London for his entry on the possible commercial cultivation of native flax. [7] [1]