Biographical entry Aplin, Christopher D'Oyly Hale (1819 - 1875)

Summary

Christopher Aplin was the first Government Geological Surveyor of Southern Queensland 1868-1969. Earlier he was employed by the Geological Survey of Victoria 1856-1968.

Details

Events

1840

Life event - Arrived in Australia (Victoria)

1845

Life event - Moved to Port Essington in the Northern Territory

1846? - ?

Career position - Collector of Customs and Surveyor-General in Borneo

1856 - 1868

Career position - Geological survey of Victoria

1868 - 1869

Career position - First Government Geological Surveyor of Southern Queensland

c. 1871 - c. 1874

Career position - Geologist at a sugar plantation in Maryborough, Queensland

1874 - 1875

Career position - Police Magistrate at Somerset

Archival resources

Queensland Museum Library

• Christopher D'Oyly Hale Aplin - Records, 1868 - 1869; Queensland Museum Library. Details

Published resources

Journal Articles

• Woods, J. T., 'C. D'Oyly H. Aplin, First Government Geologist for the Southern District of Queensland', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, vol. 14, no. 4, 1964, pp. 107-114. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Aplin Christopher D'Oyly Hale', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1477294. Details

See also

• Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/scripts/smv-dynindex.php3?EID=P000022. Details