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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2019-07-04 human Ken McInnes, Helen Cohn updated 2024-10-16 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006454b.htm person Cowle Kate Julia AACR2 Weindorfer, Kate Julia 19 July 1863 29 April 1916 Place of Birth Fingal, Tasmania, Australia Place of Death Devonport, Tasmania, Australia Botanist Conservationist Naturalist Kate Cowle was a botanist, naturalist and conservationist active between c1890 and 1916 in Tasmania and Victoria. She was a keen member of the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria between 1902 and 1905, regularly co-leading excursions and identifying botanical specimens for other members. Her particular interest was mosses. She met fellow member and botanist Gustav Weindorfer, and in 1906 they moved to Tasmania and married. There they started their life-long vision of exploring, protecting and promoting the natural, scenic and scientific values of Cradle Mountain. Cowle was the first women to climb the Mountain. Being of independent means Kate Cowle was able to purchase 200 acres of Crown Land at Cradle Mountain in 1911 to ensure that it would not be logged. On this land, Gustav Weindorfer built "Waldheim" as a visitor and tourism centre for adventurers, scientists, naturalists, and geologists, using as his model, the developments they had seen on Mount Buffalo in the Victorian Alps. In conjunction with Ronald Edgar Smith (1881-1969), neighbouring Crown Land was also purchased to protect it - in total more than 1200 acres. Their venture ultimately succeeded although circumstances during WWI (Kate's terminal illness, Smith's enlistment and the general distrust of foreigners such as Gustav) hampered their plans. Kate Cowle's entire estate was bequeathed to her husband, assuring the protection of the Cradle Mountain area. 1906 1906 Life event - Married Gustav Weindorfer 1911 1911 Life event - Purchased 200 acres of land at Cradel Mountain, Tasmania Weindorfer, Gustav (1874 - 1932)

Cowle and Weindorfer were husband and wife

 'Cowle, Kate Julia', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Cowle, Kate Julia Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Excursion to Yan Yean Cowle, K. Excursion to Yan Yean 1904 The Victorian naturalist 20 165 Journal Article: Notes on a Visit to Mount Roland, Tasmania Cowle, K. Notes on a Visit to Mount Roland, Tasmania 1903 The Victorian naturalist 20 70-72 Book: Kindred: a Cradle Mountain love story Legge, Kate Kindred: a Cradle Mountain love story Carlton, Vic. Miegunyah Press 2019 Book: Kate Weindorfer : the woman behind the man and the mountain : a biography of Kate Julia Weindorfer wife of Cradle Mountain pioneer Gustav Weindorfer Schnackenberg, Sally Kate Weindorfer : the woman behind the man and the mountain : a biography of Kate Julia Weindorfer wife of Cradle Mountain pioneer Gustav Weindorfer Launceston, Tas. Regal Publications 1995 Journal Article: Gustav Weindorfer Sutton, C. S. Gustav Weindorfer 1932 The Victorian naturalist 49 34-8 Book: Gustav Weindorfer of Cradle Mountain Bergman, G. F. Gustav Weindorfer of Cradle Mountain Launceston Burchall 1959 Journal Article: Two botanists in the Cradle Mountains, Tasmania Weindorfer, G. Two botanists in the Cradle Mountains, Tasmania 1912 The Victorian naturalist 28 216-23 Book Section: Weindorfer, Gustav (1874-1932), naturalist and conservationist Tilley, Raymond F. Weindorfer, Gustav (1874-1932), naturalist and conservationist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1990 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 12: 1891 - 1939 Smy-Z John Ritchie 436-437