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Biographical entry Mackay, Donald George (1870 - 1958)
- Born
- 29 June 1870
Yass, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 17 September 1958
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Explorer
Summary
Donald George Mackay financed and participated in several expeditions into the Northern Territory from 1926-28 with H. Basedow and supervised aerial surveys and expeditions of Central Australia from 1930-37 that included naturalists like P. Crosbie Morrison.
Archival resources
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
- Donald George Mackay - Records, 1900 - 1940; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
Published resources
Book Sections
- Carment, David, 'Mackay, Donald George (1870-1958), Explorer', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 10, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1986, pp. 289-290. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100284b.htm. Details
Online Resources
- National Library of Australia, 'Mackay, Donald', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-480095. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 4 February 2010
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