P000075 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

All key entry types: Awards; Concepts; Corporate Bodies (Organisations); Cultural Artefacts; People; etc

These key entries are listed separately below with other indexes and lists.

 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2026-01-07 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000075b.htm person Burnett James Charles AACR2 1815 18 July 1854 Place of Death Kangaroo Point, Queensland, Australia Surveyor Explorer James Burnett was appointed a clerk in the New South Wales Surveyor-General's Office (1788 - 1887) in 1833 where he rapidly rose through the ranks. In 1844 he was made head of the Moreton Bay District Survey Office (1840c. - 1859). What is now known as Queensland did not become a separate colony from New South Wales until 1859, up until this point Queensland was referred to as Moreton Bay Penal Settlement, then the Free Settlement of Moreton Bay.

James Burnett's work led him to survey the Dividing Range (1841 - 1842), the Richmond River (1843), the river system beyond the Upper Brisbane River, the Burnett River (named in his honour), and a river which entered Wide Bay.

1829 c. 1829 Life event - Migrated to Australia 1833 1844 Career position - Clerk, New South Wales Surveyor-General's Office 1841 1842 Career event - Commander, Expedition to trace the Dividing Range 1843 1843 Career event - Surveyed the Richmond River 1844 c. 1854 Career position - Surveyor-General, Moreton Bay District Survey Office, New South Wales Surveyor-General's Office 1854 1854 Award - Fellow, Royal Geographical Society, England New South Wales Surveyor General [I], Colony of New South Wales (1788 - 1887)

James Burnett was a clerk in the New South Wales Surveyor-General's Department, 1833, and became the Surveyor General in the Moreton Bay District Survey Office 1844 - c1854

Wikidata

VIAF - Virtual International Authority File

 Burnett, James Charles (1815-1854)

Trove

 'Burnett, James Charles', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Burnett, James Charles Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Burnett, James Charles (1815-185), surveyor and explorer Dignan, Don Burnett, James Charles (1815-185), surveyor and explorer Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1969 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 3: 1851 - 1890 A-C Douglas Pike 303-304 James Charles Burnett - Records Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales James Charles Burnett - Records 1833 - 1854 William Burnett manuscript (THIS WAS NOT LOCATED BY KIM - 1989).