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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2024-11-04 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000603b.htm person McKinlay John AACR2 16 August 1819 17 January 1872 Place of Birth Sandbank, Argyll, Scotland Place of Death South Australia, Australia Explorer John McKinlay was sent by the South Australian Government to help find the lost expedition party of Burke and Wills (16 August 1861). He and his party discovered the grave of one of the explorers, Charlie Gray. After learning of the fate of the rest of the party, McKinlay's team set off north. They were extremely lucky to survive the trip supplies ran out almost two months before they arrived on the Queensland coast in August 1862. This trip made McKinlay and his team only the second party to have successfully crossed Australia from south to north. In 1865 McKinlay was sent on an expedition to discover settlement sites in the southern and central Australia. 1882 1882 Taxonomy event - Collector of a syntype of Eucalyptus foelscheana F.Muell.

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 McKinlay, John (18190826-18721231)

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 'McKinlay, John', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology McKinlay, John Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Tracks of McKinlay and Party Across Australia Davis, J. Tracks of McKinlay and Party Across Australia London 1863 Book Section: McKinlay, John (1819-1872), explorer McKinlay, John (1819-1872), explorer Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1974 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 5: 1851 - 1890 K-Q Douglas Pike 174-175 Journal Article: John McKinlay - "knight errant of explorers": an explorer's explorer? Gibson, David John McKinlay - "knight errant of explorers": an explorer's explorer? 2012 Queensland history journal 21 8 575-84 Book: South Australian land exploration, 1856 to 1880 Threadgill, Bessie South Australian land exploration, 1856 to 1880 Adelaide Board of Governors of the Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery of South Australi 1922 Journal Article: John McKinlay: his significance as a Northern Territory explorer Harlow, Susan John McKinlay: his significance as a Northern Territory explorer 1992 Journal of Northern Territory History 3 55-65 Book: Dictionary of Australian biography Serle, Percival Dictionary of Australian biography Sydney Angus & Robertson 1949 Book: Botanists of the Eucalypts: short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material Hall, Norman Botanists of the Eucalypts: short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material Melbourne CSIRO 1978

Source used to compile entry

 John McKinlay - Records State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana John McKinlay - Records PRG 834 1861 - 1866 Miscellaneous papers and diaries relating to McKinlay's expeditions 1861-62, 1865-66; vocabularies of Northern Territory Aboriginal dialects. 0.135 m