P000050 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human Annette Alafaci updated 2024-10-16 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000050b.htm person Gosse William Christie AACR2 11 December 1842 12 August 1881 Place of Birth Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, England Place of Death Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Explorer Surveyor William Gosse was the first European to discover Uluru (previously known as Ayers Rock). This find was made during a South Australian government-backed exploration to find a crossing between Alice Springs and Perth. His party had to turn back before reaching Perth, but still managed to open up and map over 60,000 square miles of previously uncharted land. Prior to this trip, Gosse worked for the surveyor-general's office surveying the far north and south-eastern districts of South Australia. 1850 1850 Life event - Migrated to Australia (Adelaide) with family 1859 1874 Career position - Surveyor in the Surveyor-General's Office of South Australia 1872 1873 Career position - Leader of an expedition from Alice Springs to Perth 1873 1873 Career position - Discovered and named Ayers Rock 1875 1881 Career position - Deputy Surveyor-General for South Australia South Australian Surveyor General's Office and the Survey and Crown Lands Department, Colony and State of South Australia (1836 - 1917)

Deputy Surveyor General 1875 - 1881; Surveyor 1859 - 1874.

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 'Gosse, William Christie', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Gosse, William Christie Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Gosse, William Christie (1842-1881), explorer and surveyor Gosse, Fayette Gosse, William Christie (1842-1881), explorer and surveyor Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1972 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 4: 1851 - 1890 D-J Douglas Pike 276 Resource: The Overland Telegraph Line: A Transcultural History Nettelbeck, Amanda (and others) The Overland Telegraph Line: A Transcultural History South Australia South Australian Government 2023 Australian Botanists - Biographies Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science Australian Botanists - Biographies MS 064 Hunt Institute Biographies. Short biographies, averaging 2 pages, of Australian botanists, botanical collectors or artists. 0.24 m, 3 boxes