People

Camel carrying company owner active across north Queensland’s mining districts from the 1890s.

Partner with his brother Walter in Scott Bros, Dalrymple & Co (Valley of Lagoons run, 1862); returned to England at the end of 1864. Source: https://archivescollection.anu.edu.au/index.php/valley-of-lagoons-station

Assistant Surveyor who led the 1848 Cape York expedition, landed at Rockingham Bay from the barque Tam O’Shanter; killed near Cape York in December 1848.

Journalist and naturalist who settled on Dunk Island in 1897 and wrote as “the Beachcomber” (The Confessions of a Beachcomber, 1908).

Explorer and Queensland official who founded Bowen (1861) and Cardwell (1864) and opened the Dalrymple Gap dray road over the Cardwell Range.

Aboriginal guide on Edmund Kennedy’s 1848 Cape York expedition; the only member of Kennedy’s final party to reach the relief ship.

Mining investor and business partner of John Moffat.

Irish-born prospector and explorer who opened the Palmer and Hodgkinson goldfields and first reported tin on the Wild River, laying the foundation for European settlement of the Atherton Tableland.

Irish-born civil engineer and contractor who built the challenging Redlynch to Myola (Kuranda Range) section of the Cairns–Kuranda railway through the Barron Gorge between 1887 and 1891.

Pilbara pastoralist, prospector and promoter of Hamersley Range iron ore; co-principal of Hancock Prospecting and Hanwright.

German explorer. On his 1844–45 overland expedition from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, he described the "valley of lagoons" on the upper Burdekin in May 1845. Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5005/5005-h/5005-h.htm