Person
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 Mackay financed and participated in several expeditions into the Northern Territory from 1926-1928 with H. Basedow and supervised aerial surveys and expeditions of Central Australia from 1930-1937 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 Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 10 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), pp. 289-290. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100284b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1239899. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/91626253. Details
- 'Mackay, Donald (1870-1958)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-480095. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 13 February 2018
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