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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Event created 2025-03-13 human Helen Cohn updated 2025-03-13 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007644b.htm event Northern Exploring Party Colony of Queensland AACR2 26 June 1872 12 November 1872 Australian inland exploration The Northern Exploring Party was equipped by the Queensland Government for the purpose of investigating country in the northeast of Cape York Peninsula as far north as the 14th parallel. Primary goals were to seek gold, minerals, and pastoral land, and to determine the potential for settlement. The leader was William Hann, recommended for the post by Richard Daintree. Setting out in June 1872, the Party travelled over 1,500 miles, much of this through dense tropical rainforest. Progress was hampered by the rough terrain over which the Party travelled, and marred by disputes between Hann and geologist Norman Taylor and surveyor Frederick Warner. Significant geographical discoveries included the Normanby, Palmer, and Stewart Rivers. Hann reported that gold had been found on the Palmer River: later in the decade there was a gold rush to the region. Geological specimens collected by Taylor later proved important evidence in understanding the age of Australia's desert sandstones, while other fossils collected by members of the Party included cephalopods, ammonites and other marine animals. Plant specimens collected by both Tate and Taylor were ultimately sent to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Members of the Party were:
William Hann, Leader
Jerry (1852 - 1942), indigenous guide and translator
Norman Taylor, geologist
Thomas Tate, naturalist and botanist
Frederick Horatio Warner, surveyor
William Nation, pastoralist and bushman
William Robert Stewart, pastoralist and bushman

26 June 1872 26 June 1872 Event - The Party set out from Fossilbrook Creek, Queensland 12 November 1872 12 November 1872 Education - The Party returned to its starting point Tate, Thomas (1842 - 1934)

Naturalist 1872

 Taylor, Norman (1834 - 1894)

Geologist 1872

 Hann, William (1837 - 1889)

Leader of the Party

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